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[scsijon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (scsijon)]

If I remember correctly from the README, YAST (not 2) loves (lives) on one
of the other CD's
regards
scsijon
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> From: klcroxen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: Marlon Urias <nolram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Kramer <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; suse-linux-e
<suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [SLE] Problems with 6.3 install
> Date: Sunday, 30 January 2000 23:41
> 
> I did the installation in an extraordinarily boneheaded way that seems to
> have worked. Since there appears to be no way to avoid YAST2 if you boot
> the CD, and since YAST2 looked suspiciously as though it was about to
nuke
> everything in my 6.2 installation, I booted from the 6.2 CD and let
> regular YAST load, then swapped the 6.3 CD in and did a routine
> YAST package upgrade. I later had to reconfigure my network card by hand,
> but 6.3 seems now to be working flawlessly.
> 
> --Kevin
> 
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Marlon Urias wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, David Kramer wrote:
> > 
> > > I tried using yast2, but apparently there is no way to tell it how
you
> > > want the partitions laid out, which I find hard to believe.  I have
an
> > > IDE hard drive in the machine with Red Hat, and put in a new SCSI
hard
> > > drive to install Suse on.  However, when I told it I wanted to
install
> > > Suse on sda1, with the intention of using the swap partition already
> > > existing on hda4, it insisted on creating a swap partition on sda.  I
> > > could see no way of changing it.
> > 
> > I had the same problem today also, but the docs say this, Yast2 does
alot
> > more guessing, if you have a specific set of partitions you want to use
> > (and you do) use the original yast (boot from disk 2)
> > 
> > > When running yast during installation, I wish it told me what was
> > > different about the package configurations.  What is "Office server"?

> > > There were so many packages selected it would not fit on my 2G drive.
 I
> > 
> > Same problem yast2 apparently asks less questions, and assumes more, I
> > also couldn't fit 'Defailt' plus a couple of add-ons on my 2 gig either
> > I suppose using yast 1 will give more flexability.
> > 
> > > found it very hard to go in and out of the package lists deselecting
> > > packages I didn't want, including some with German documentation.
> > > 
> > > Cut and paste did not work in KDE.  right-click and chording both
> > > brought up a popup menu.
> > 
> > Yeah, me too. Why doesnt cut and paste work correctly? I think that
> > 3-button emulation is not quite right. I wish that CTRL-C and CTRL-V
> > worked as part of KDE, and not just in specific tools that support it 
> > it like Netscape or emacs.
> > 				marlon
> > 
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