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On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:08:15PM +0200, jdd wrote:
The hardware you keep talking about and what you are pushing is not able to do the installation, because of e.g. memory problems.
it was able to install 10.0, but not 10.1 alpha (I was saif final is better). We should not let people alone that used our product. two years support don't mean two years computers are too old for us.
It also does not mean that a computer that you had two years ago was a recent one then. I would be very surprised if the PC you bought 2 years ago won't install 10.1 because of specifications.
That is unless you bought an even for that time machine with way too low specifications. As you know the most limiting factor is the installation itself. If you have taken that hurdle, then you can run SUSE just fine with e.g. Windowmaker.
The limiting factor is memory.
The limiting factor is memory and swap space. I run SUSE Linux 10.1 on 3
667 MHz 128 MB Memory computers. They key is having 1.0-1.5 GB swap
space. I have to run
/etc/init.d/novell-zmd stop
10 minutes after the machine is up or there are times when the machine is
un-useable. I run these computer's with 4-8 xterms 3-6 SeaMonkey windows
and on OpenOffice.org writer. I have found that the best way to updates
these is with smart. I have a 35 GB / and 25 GB home on two machines and
one with everything else in / (see below).
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 56G 50G 5.3G 91% /
udev 62M 236K 62M 1% /dev
/dev/hda1 60G 53G 6.8G 89% /windows/C
# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used
Priority
/dev/hda5 partition 923696 106532 42
So the only real problem is the installation. I am unable to do a
partition on a new HD with 10.1. So I boot into recovery mode and do a
quick partition on the HD and then an installation. On all these systems
I have almost everything installed.
I found the installation is best done from a local inst-source and
non-oss-inst-source with update/10.1 added. Then all I have to do is take
the time to select everything and resolve the conflicts and then let it
run till it is installed with the updates. I have used this to install
over 15 SUSE 10.1 installations without problems.
So jdd is not the only one use sub-optimal new computers.
I am very happy with the results after the installation.
Thanks,
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Boyd Gerber