Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

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On October Saturday 08 2005 7:24 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
> Kevanf1 wrote:
> > On 08/10/05, Kevin Donnelly <kevin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
> > IF THE HARDWARE YOU ARE CONSIDERING BUYING IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH
> > LINUX DON'T BUY IT AND LET THE MANUFACTURER KNOW ABOUT YOUR
> > DECISION!
> >
<snip>


> Select your hardware for Linux is the best policy, I take a list of
> what is supported and choose from that, in many cases it's a huge
> list. In a debate at LWE in London last Wed., Klaus Knopper got
> sustained applause when he spoke, he was very incisive in his
> responses, IBM chipped in with a few home truths also and the
<snip>
I agree this is the best way to go... However, I bought the hardware w/ 
which I am currently having problems installing Suse 9.3.

Each piece individually and all together were considered . The company  
from whom we bought all the parts even went so far as to take back, and  
after some testing, the original MOBO. They then wandered about the 
shop and found  other Linux users and decided on the current MSI K8N 
Neo4 Platinum. They even used a boxed set of Suse 9.3 to try to install 
( on one of their own drives ) to see if there would be  the same 
problems ( It couldn't see keyboard or mouse once it got to the "New 
Install" choice the thing turned up DOA <sigh>) W/ the new MOBO that 
frozen input didn't  happen and doesn't happen here. )

However, here it doesn't seem to do an install that can boot w/ out 
freezing, and we have tried all the options possible.

 Thanks to Anders Johannson, who helped by telling me yast would only 
show me the correct packages to install. ;)

But we still get no install, even tho it appears to proceed w/o any 
problems.  So, although I heartily agree about choosing items that are 
linux compatible, and where there is a difference, Suse compatible. 
That doesn't solve all possible problems.

And that last bit is the gist of this.. in spite of taking every 
precaution . Our new computer doesn't complete it's installation w/ 
enough of the necessary stuff to give me a desktop or init 3 
commandline that allows any input.  We have complete and hard locks, 
all w/ Suse approved  stuff.






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