On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:58, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
I am going to load SuSE onto a "small" (2GB) hard drive on my lapotop. I have three questions:
1. If I just let SuSE install itself, will SuSE simply load everything on a single partition or will it set up partitions optimally, given the disk space? If not, how should I divide up the 2GB?
2. Any problems with SuSE recognizing and accommodating for PCMCIA slots?
3. Any way I can get SuSE to use Gnome rather than KDE?
Hi Dennis, Always happy to help out a fellow lawyer...:-) SuSE 7.1 (which I'm installing on my Libretto at the moment) works fine on a 2Gb drive...... I can give you a step-by-step if you need it, but the salient points to remember are; 1. Don't select EVERYTHING - it's not pretty...:-) 2. If you're booting from a PCMCIA CD-ROM, you *could* experience problems depending on your hardware (I boot the install stuff from a floppy - it prompts me for the Modules floppy and then dies becaise my floppy is a PCMCIA one and it can't read the disk to get the drivers to read the disk.....:-) 3. Gnome works fine - I switch between the two constantly, tryiing to decide what I like best... It would help if we knew the specs of your laptop and what version you were planning to install. Jon BA.LlB - Sydney