On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:59:07 -0400 jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
Just asking... it's not so hard to install Linux , once you get past the idea that you reinstall over and over and over what you origionaly installed as a solution to problems. ( it isn´t and doesn´t solve the problem.
Then there's my experience in installing (actually upgrading) SuSE: The install proceeded until it came to 'gstreamer'. There the system went into a "non-responsive" mode - no keyboard input, no mouse input (the cursor could move, and depress buttons, but no reaction to the button depress). The only recourse was the Big Red Switch. So I tried again, from the beginning. Same "non-responsive" at the same point. The third time, I went into the package list filter and changed the status for 'gstreamer' to NOT install. This time the install process *did* complete. To make SuSE less "hard to install", they should have provided an "always-responsive" input to perform "skip installing this package", effective even if the install process had internally gotten into a loop or something. Then I would not have had to keep redoing all the setup for the update. As it was, the ONLY idea that was reinforced in my mind was "one reinstalls over and over and over". mikus