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[chris123@xxxxxxxxx (Chris Herrnberger)]

Greetings

Need some info please. Tried to install my old vesrion of SuSE 5.0 on my
friends computer (this way he could have the manual, disc set ext....and
I could keep my 5.1 set) but ran into some problems. Could solve most of
them other than the LS 120 not being recognized by Yast install program
and the Xserver requirement (Rage Pro chip set) The Xserver was
addressed and solved. However when you partition the drive with Yast you
need to store the file system on a disc and reboot for the changes to
take effect. However the LS 120 is not recognized by Yast. I solved this
by removing the hard drive (luckily it was portable) and partitioned on
a 486 backup machine with a standard floppy. So here are my two
questions. Im assuming that the newest versions of Yast support the
LS120 drives, yes or no? Secondly is there a way to get the new version
of Yast integrated into the 5.0 install procedures. The only thing I can
think of is to transfer the latest version of Yast to the machine via a
zip drive but this is putting the horse befor the cart as a Linux OS
would not be installed yet. I would like to be able to recycle the older
versions of SuSE but this is complicated by hardware issues. By the way
my buddy lives some 500 km away and nows nothing about Linux. Hence I
need to do all this upfront. Yes I know 5.1 can so all this but this is
not the point. I am trying to figure out a way to recycle the not so
current versions. Similar issues will come up with 5.1 after 5.2
international version is released. Any ideas would be appreciated.

TIA

chris


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