Kelly, This is exactly the position I am in now. It turns out that SuSE does not support SMP systems in their installation support. Oh well! All of my research and development systems are SMP. BTW I try not to compare to MS anymore, we need to be better! I agree about access to source the problem is that to most users this is meaningless because they are not programmers.... They are users! I am a developer and so this is not a problem for me. I just would rather not have to worry about it for my base install. Anyway, thanks for the idea about not installing any NIC and then enabling after the install. I think I am going to try that right now. Robert On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 08:50 PM, Kelly L. Fulks wrote:
On Wednesday 09 April 2003 13:38, Ken Schneider wrote:
Can/have you/tried to disable one of the cards in the bios?
This might allow you to do the install and turn the other card back on in the bios.
Ken Schneider
On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 14:13, Robert Fenney wrote:
I just got a reply back from SuSE that troubles me a little. Basically, they do not provide installation support for SMP based systems. But they did point out that I could purchase a support package. So I guess I am back to solving this one on my own (unless a kind sole has a suggestion.) I seem to remember that Redhat provided installation support for SMP systems. Does anyone know off of the top of their head?
Thanks everyone!
Robert
On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 12:41 AM, Robert Fenney wrote:
O.K. [stuff deleted]
I am not trying to flame I just think that after two years of seeing the same issues they should be fixed. And before you say get the compiler and the source I pay for the upgrades from SuSE and I want to be a "USER" on these issues so I pay them by purchasing the upgrades.
Thanks if anyone can help. I also sent a similar request into SuSE support so I will let you know what I here if anyone is interested.
Robert
Can you disable both NICs for the install and then enable and configure them after you have everything installed? I don't see why this wouldn't work as a work around. I agree that I don't like work arounds, but sometimes they are required.
I also want to say that I understand what you are saying about paying for upgrades and wanting to be a USER and it being two years. But on the other side of the coin, I have a little story. We had to call Microsoft recently when we discovered that some of our software couldn't talk to an IBM DB2 database running on an AS400 system at a client site. Upon MS investigating this, they found that this problem had existed at least as far back as their SQL Server 6.5. So how many years has it not worked and them not fix it? And how many folks have paid for upgrades? And there apparently isn't even a good work around. And obviously there is no opportunity for us to help fix this problem other than reporting the issue.
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