Just got my 8.1 today, and I would like to say... nice job SuSE! This is soemthing I wanna share with all my sceptical friends (diehard Windows users) who were intrigued with 8.0 but not 100% convinced. I think 8.1 will convince them that Linux is a viable alternative. On to the install.... From start to finish, it took 70 minutes to do a clean install of 8.1. This was the fastest install yet. Things I really liked... the way the hardware was autodetected. SAX2 finally got it right first try for my monitor settings. My USB scanner (HP Scanjet 2200C) was autodetected and setup first try... works too! So... my two issues/questions (which are not that serious): 1. My VFAT partitions on hdb were not autodetected and setup like they were in 8.0. No nice auto icons on the desktop etc. OK, easy to fix. Fire up joe, and edit /etc/fstab and add in the missing lines. Right click on the desktop and add the hard drive icons. Problem solved. Question though... why didn't this autodetect this time around? 2. A desktop icon was added for /data1... which seems to be the boot partition. OK... why woudl this get a desktop icon? As a user, I don't want to play in that partition... as root maybe, but not as an end user. C.
You might want to double check the device ID for /data1.... it should not point to the root or boot volume, but to some "other" partition it found. - Herman On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Clayton Cornell wrote: ->Just got my 8.1 today, and I would like to say... nice job SuSE! This is ->soemthing I wanna share with all my sceptical friends (diehard Windows users) ->who were intrigued with 8.0 but not 100% convinced. I think 8.1 will ->convince them that Linux is a viable alternative. -> ->On to the install.... From start to finish, it took 70 minutes to do a clean ->install of 8.1. This was the fastest install yet. -> ->Things I really liked... the way the hardware was autodetected. SAX2 finally ->got it right first try for my monitor settings. My USB scanner (HP Scanjet ->2200C) was autodetected and setup first try... works too! -> ->So... my two issues/questions (which are not that serious): -> -> 1. My VFAT partitions on hdb were not autodetected and setup like they were ->in 8.0. No nice auto icons on the desktop etc. OK, easy to fix. Fire up ->joe, and edit /etc/fstab and add in the missing lines. Right click on the ->desktop and add the hard drive icons. Problem solved. Question though... ->why didn't this autodetect this time around? -> -> 2. A desktop icon was added for /data1... which seems to be the boot ->partition. OK... why woudl this get a desktop icon? As a user, I don't want ->to play in that partition... as root maybe, but not as an end user. -> ->C. -> -> ->-- ->Check the headers for your unsubscription address ->For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ->Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com ->Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com -> -> ->
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 19:37, Herman L. Knief wrote:
You might want to double check the device ID for /data1.... it should not point to the root or boot volume, but to some "other" partition it found.
[snip]
-> 2. A desktop icon was added for /data1... which seems to be the boot -> partition. OK... why woudl this get a desktop icon? As a user, I don't -> want to play in that partition... as root maybe, but not as an end user.
That's what I thought too, but... I only made 3 partitions on hdc, swap, root, and boot. There are no Linux partitions on hda and hdb. From fstab (not all of it... just the bit for my Linux drive): ---------------------------------------------- /dev/hdc3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hdc1 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdc2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 Contents of /data1: ----------------------------------------------- System.map-2.4.18-4GB boot-bmp.b boot-menu.b boot-text.b boot.0300 boot.1601 boot.b -> boot-menu.b chain.b initrd initrd.suse lilo.log lost+found map map2 mbr.b memtest.bin message os2_d.b vmlinuz vmlinuz.autoconf.h vmlinuz.config vmlinuz.suse vmlinuz.version.h --------------------------------------------- This looks like /boot to me. Hmmm maybe it's just a quirk during the install. Just curious if this is soemthign anyone else had. I can't think if anything I did during the install that would have done this. C.
participants (2)
-
Clayton Cornell
-
Herman L. Knief