SuSE 9.0 install
Jonathan Hutchins
hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Fri Dec 12 15:50:13 CST 2003
So the SuSE 9.0 install completed last night. Realistically, installing from
ftp.novell.com over a good cable modem connection took around two hours,
maybe 2.5 if you add in stuff like partitioning and responding to prompts.
Now for the tweaking.
First off, I notice that the "Windows" keys aren't activated.
I'm having a little trouble with the PCMCIA cards, but I seem to have gotten a
wired connection with the 3c574 at least. Not sure exactly what I did, but
once the card was firmly inserted it worked.
Not so the acx100 wireless. It's detected and described, but doesn't light
up.
YaST's software update doesn't work out-of-the-box. I think the path for the
only U.S. mirror, sourceforge, is wrong. I finally got it to work with the
path ftp://ftp.novell.com/pub/suse/ - had to trim back to just the "suse"
directory. We are now 33% patched.
Why can't they patch the distro files directly, so you don't have to download
everything twice?
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