I was just wondering about the SuSE evaluation CD. I've never used it, and since I'm at the end of an expensive connection, downloading it to have a look isn't a great option for me. What does it give you? Does it give you a complete-ish SuSE environment running purely from CD (and which could be used as a rescue disk in a pinch), or does it require an amount of hard disk space, and give you a limited SuSE installation on disk? I've always assumed the former. Can anyone elaborate? -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Sun, 4 May 2003, Derek Fountain wrote:
I was just wondering about the SuSE evaluation CD. I've never used it, and since I'm at the end of an expensive connection, downloading it to have a look isn't a great option for me.
Understandable.
What does it give you? Does it give you a complete-ish SuSE environment running purely from CD (and which could be used as a rescue disk in a pinch)
Yes, if it has not changed in the meanwhile. Something similar to Knoppix. You boot off the CD, configure your hardware and have a running system.
or does it require an amount of hard disk space, and give you a limited SuSE installation on disk?
AFAIK you can save your settings and your home directory on hard disk or
floppy, but I cannot tell for sure.
Bye,
LenZ
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On Tuesday 06 May 2003 16:32, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
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Yes, if it has not changed in the meanwhile. Something similar to Knoppix. You boot off the CD, configure your hardware and have a running system.
or does it require an amount of hard disk space, and give you a limited SuSE installation on disk?
AFAIK you can save your settings and your home directory on hard disk or floppy, but I cannot tell for sure.
Well, look who's back!! Long time no see! Now I wonder how many of the old timers will say the same thing.. ;-) Mike -- Powered by SuSE 8.1 Kernel 2.4.19 KDE 3.1.1 Kmail 1.5.1 For SuSE Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 4:39pm up 3 days, 5:09, 6 users, load average: 1.71, 1.78, 1.82
Using konqueror on suse 8.2 from the rpm kdebase3-3.1.1-63 I occasionally find a website rendered as a blank screen. For example if I go to www.suse.com I get a blank screen. The browser "thinks" it has rendered the site since I can move around it with a mouse and url links show up and I can click and go to them. I can't find any pattern to this behavior. On other sites I have found certain characters show up as blanks, for example capital letters on one discussion group. I can't replicate this. Changing font has no effect. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Henry Harpending
* Henry Harpending
Using konqueror on suse 8.2 from the rpm kdebase3-3.1.1-63 I occasionally find a website rendered as a blank screen. For example if [snip]...
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 06 May 2003 09:47, Henry Harpending wrote:
Using konqueror on suse 8.2 from the rpm kdebase3-3.1.1-63 I occasionally find a website rendered as a blank screen. For example if I go to www.suse.com I get a blank screen. The browser "thinks" it has rendered the site since I can move around it with a mouse and url links show up and I can click and go to them.
I can't find any pattern to this behavior. On other sites I have found certain characters show up as blanks, for example capital letters on one discussion group. I can't replicate this.
Changing font has no effect.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks, Henry Harpending
Please try not to break up the continuity of the threads (aka highjacking). Start a new post, and try to avoid attaching new subjects to the current threads. It makes search the data bases very difficult later on also. Thanks, Curtis. ;) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+uUwE7WVLiDrqeksRAjwgAKCri4/dEbVwGzmoYyGJ9wYiklUHvQCgqRmj ShWAp9RaszTeCxfr+3ANRBM= =5KXX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tue, 6 May 2003, Mike wrote:
Well, look who's back!! Long time no see! Now I wonder how many of the old timers will say the same thing.. ;-)
Thanks for the warm welcome :)
Sorry that it took me so long to rejoin - my new job at MySQL truly keeps
me busy...
Bye,
LenZ
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 06 May 2003 09:32, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, 4 May 2003, Derek Fountain wrote:
I was just wondering about the SuSE evaluation CD. I've never used it, and since I'm at the end of an expensive connection, downloading it to have a look isn't a great option for me.
Understandable.
What does it give you? Does it give you a complete-ish SuSE environment running purely from CD (and which could be used as a rescue disk in a pinch)
Yes, if it has not changed in the meanwhile. Something similar to Knoppix. You boot off the CD, configure your hardware and have a running system.
or does it require an amount of hard disk space, and give you a limited SuSE installation on disk?
AFAIK you can save your settings and your home directory on hard disk or floppy, but I cannot tell for sure.
LENZ !! LTNS. Nice to see you. Now I'm going to leave before someone cites me for highjacking (l0l) Cheers, Curtis. :) ;) :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+uUtq7WVLiDrqeksRApwqAJ0XpAZKanMrp4z0r7aBPHBAkl1quACfR2FW QnpA+o7HKsuxfXYk/Nmol/w= =sLFg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sunday 04 May 2003 05:46, Derek Fountain wrote:
I was just wondering about the SuSE evaluation CD. I've never used it, and since I'm at the end of an expensive connection, downloading it to have a look isn't a great option for me.
What does it give you? Does it give you a complete-ish SuSE environment running purely from CD (and which could be used as a rescue disk in a pinch), or does it require an amount of hard disk space, and give you a limited SuSE installation on disk?
I've always assumed the former. Can anyone elaborate?
I used the 8.0 or 8.1 eval CD for a bit before buying 8.1 (and recently 8.2). It worked really well for me (on my old system - a 450MHz AMD K7 something). It *mainly* runs off the CD but needs about 100MB of HD space on your Windows disk to save the home directory and any config stuff it needs (which saves re-configuring your hardware each time). This 100MB exists as a single file as far as Windows is concerned. I found it very slow - but then again my old system was slow with a 4x CD-ROM drive. Apart from that it gives a complete, if basic, SuSE system. HTH -- Ray
I used the 8.0 or 8.1 eval CD for a bit before buying 8.1 (and recently 8.2). It worked really well for me (on my old system - a 450MHz AMD K7 something). It *mainly* runs off the CD but needs about 100MB of HD space on your Windows disk to save the home directory and any config stuff it needs (which saves re-configuring your hardware each time). This 100MB exists as a single file as far as Windows is concerned.
Thanks for the info. What if the host box is running Linux - SuSE or otherwise...? Or is the evaluation disk a Windows-machine only evaluation? -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 7 May 2003, Derek Fountain wrote:
What if the host box is running Linux - SuSE or otherwise...? Or is the evaluation disk a Windows-machine only evaluation?
IIRC, it can then save your settings inside of a Linux file system, too
(it uses a single file that is being loop-mounted).
Bye,
LenZ
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