Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3784 mails)

[Austin Morgan <admorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin,
  I don't know settings SuSE runs on thier kernels, but I installed 7.1
on 3 Intel 486's and one AMD 586 (not K5), all 4 machines are working
well.  I did go back and recompile kernels specifically for them but
they all ran the default kernel for a few weeks before I had time.

Austin
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:08:42PM +0000, Martin Webster wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 October 2001 12:32 pm, Thomas Beauchamp wrote:
> > Thanks for all of you who suggested YAST1.
> > Unfortunately, it gave same results.
> > I turned to Debian (!!) and it worked ...
> > So is life ...
> >
> > BTW, what's the (best) way to get SuSE support included when buying the
> > package?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Beauchamp [mailto:thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > For the last 18 hours I have tried to load SuSE 7.1!
> > I do it normally OK with YAST2, no problem.
> >
> > This time, it's hell!
> >
> > I tried with a 4Gb HDD:
> > newly formatted disk, no OS
> > newly formatted disk with Windows 98SE
> > I reduced the partition with fips2.0 (136Mb for Windows the rest free)
> >
> > Same message 'unsupported partition table'
> > 'Please repartition /dev/had'
> >
> > YAST2 then goes on formatting /dev/hda1 as /boot'
> >
> > I choose 'Default+Office' (335 packages) and .. at the first one 'disk
> > space exhausted'
> >
> > I have noted that there is no choice about:
> >
> > Use entire disk
> >
> > Delete Windows completely
> > Shrink windows partition
> 
> What processor are you using? Just wondering because SuSE only supports 
> Pentium class processors whereas Debian works with 486.
> 
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