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>Experience Installing SuSE Linux 8.0</H3>
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<p><strong>From Edgar Howell
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Linux ready for the desktop? -- <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/">SuSE</A> seems to think so.
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On 13 April I installed SuSE Linux 8.0 (2.4.18-4GB) on a notebook.
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Ignoring one glitch (a pcmcia module, but notebooks are notorious
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for difficult installs) and my disinclination towards gui-anything,
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it was the easiest installation of an operating system I have ever
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experienced -- other than Coherent and DOS.
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Not having a PC available with sufficient resources for recent
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releases of Linux, the now 2-year-old Toshiba Satellite 2180 CDT
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became the target. In theory all data on it was backed up to the
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PC but "just in case" <TT>/home</TT> and a bit more got tar'd and copied to
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the PC "for a while". So it wasn't an update but a clean install.
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Probably I installed at least 4 times. But then 2 is normal: the
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first time around suprises don't always get proper responses, the
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second time is for real. However, there was something about the
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pcmcia module that hung the install as the system was coming up for
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the first time. No disk activity but the fan's coming on said the
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poor AMD was sweating heavily.
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Once I believed that -- and by then I had learned that the default
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office install includes Star Office (which I used to like but
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would rather replace since it shows its origins too much) -- I
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chose the standard install without office stuff and before turning
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it loose removed the pcmcia module from the list of packages to
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install. After that it was like ho, hum...
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The following is my protocol of installation, prompts indented
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(if the terminology differs from what SuSE actually uses stateside,
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that's due to my translation from German):
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<blockquote><pre> boot CD 1 - menu
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Installation
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Language
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German
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menu - new/update/start
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new installation
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installation settings
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accept
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start installation?
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yes-install
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root password
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xxx,ppp
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add new user
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yyy,ppp
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monitor
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LCD
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SVGA 800x600@60HZ
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CRT settings
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graphic (settings OK)
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network interfaces and modems not detected
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next
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command line login
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root,ppp
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shutdown -h now
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This took barely 24 minutes, most of which involved installing
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software. And I have omitted what was done to avoid installing the
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troublesome pcmcia module (which wouldn't be necessary on a PC).
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What really blew me away is that under the monitor options "LCD"
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was right there and as model one could choose "SVGA 800x600@60HZ"!
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Yeah, I still checked with sax. The horizontal and vertical
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frequencies were right. Afterwards I spent several hours playing
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with the notebook. It even powers off when you shutdown!
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Of course it was also neat that the partitions were recognized
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correctly (yeah, I know, a "clean install", but I've <EM>always</EM> used
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Partition Magic) and when all was said and done Win98 was still
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there, although there would have been no tears shed. Interesting
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was what can only be described as a gui-LILO: boot and you get
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about 5 or 10 seconds to make a choice on a graphics screen.
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I'm not unbiased. I've been with SuSE since their 5.1. This was
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the first time using yast2, the graphic install, since they no
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longer have yast1. I wasn't aware of any possibility of driving
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yast1 with a script but would have much prefered that, to make it
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easy to do an identical install on several machines. But then my
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past includes IBM sysgens with decks of cards. What irritates me
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about gui-installs is the infinity of questions that need to be
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answered -- every single time. At least until this SuSE release.
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Well, on a PC with adequate resources the yast2 install should go
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really slick. And like it or not that really is the yardstick
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nowadays and should go well with the desktop crowd.
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Until now I have felt that even frustrated Windows users should
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stick with what they know unless they are seriously interested in
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how real operating systems function. In my opinion this release
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definitely is ready for prime time.
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