Hi My experience here: I have Epox 8kha motherboard with Via chipset, Athlon 1.4GHz, 512Mb RAM, Matrox G450 dual-head and 40GB HD. Ethernet card is Unex NexNic 10/100. SuSE 7.2 installs easy, detects sound card , NIC and USB, plus everything else 100%. Graphics configuration was a pleasure with SaX2. I also upgraded to latest XFree-86 and KDE.. Simple, just downloaded the RPM packages, did "rpm -ihv --force --nodeps *.rpm", and ran SuSEconfig. No problem whatsoever! I also run vmware 3.0 beta with win-98, and installed BeOS in there, that boots withing vmware emulator just fine... A little bit slow on display thow.. Then, for fun I tried to install win-98 to an empty HD in that computer... Can You believe, it failed miserably to detect USB and Sound! It also failed to detect the NIC. I had to play around quite some time to make them work. M$ just did not want to see USB, NIC and sound!. And still sound does not work properly. Based on this, I would say that M$ is a bitch to install, and does not suite for a beginner / plain user to install, but requires a professional to do it! Jaska. Viestissä Keskiviikko 7. Marraskuuta 2001 04:10, Dave Barton kirjoitti:
Having spent endless hours and hundreds of dollars trying to get Suse Linux Pro 7.3 working, I have finally conceded defeat. In my opinion Linux is still a very long way from being an OS for the mainstream user. Some (or many) may say that my defeat is due to my own ignorance and/or stupidity. That may or may not be true, but I can no longer afford the time or apply the mental gymnastics needed to work out the cryptic keyboard incantations to make Linux a useable OS.
Before I sign off from this list and slip back into the not-so-comfortable arms of M$, could someone tell me how to repartition the HDD where I had installed Linux, so that I can reformat it for FAT32. Running M$'s fdisk from a bootable floppy fails when the HDD has been formatted for Linux.
Thanks & Regards Dave Barton
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