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[SLE] Install of 10.1 - Not Happy!
- From: Andy Goss <aegoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:51:29 +1000
- Message-id: <1150073489.3430.20.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Having followed this list for a couple of weeks, and successfully
installed 10.0 in a test partition, I decided to install 10.1 from the
Linux Magazine DVD in the same partition. The install was fairly
intuitive, though I was concerned that the expected GRUB placement
option did not appear, so I aborted and tried again, this time looking
in "expert", where there seemed to be confirmation that GRUB would go in
hda3, where I wanted it.
Further down the track, in hardware configuration, the graphics card
entry read "no proposal", and an error was flagged. But as the installer
seemed to have no problems with my graphics card I went ahead. The
update found only two very minor items, so I added Zen, rug, and the
Audacity I needed to test as a priority.
Problem 1: The installation finished, but instead of KDE I was presented
with a command line login, presumably due to the graphics card error.
Somewhat cheesed off, I rebooted.
Problem 2: in spite of the appearance of having put GRUB in hda3, the
install had evidently put it in the MBR of hda, wiping the previous GRUB
that booted my everyday FC4 on hdc. Not Nice.
Having rebuilt GRUB I am back in FC4. I had intended to move to SUSE
10.1 instead of FC5, but now I am considering Kubuntu Dapper, which
successfully upgraded from Breezy online.
I have yet to trawl the archives for a solution to these two problems,
and it is far too late at night here in the antipodes to start now. The
graphics card one sounds familiar, but the GRUB issue is new to me.
Every other install I have done has been very clear as to where GRUB is
to go, though FC4 consistently failed to put it anywhere, so fortunately
I had kept notes on how to create it.
I have been very impressed by the quality of the correspondence on this
list, so I hope I can find solutions and continue to run SUSE into the
future.
Andy Goss
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installed 10.0 in a test partition, I decided to install 10.1 from the
Linux Magazine DVD in the same partition. The install was fairly
intuitive, though I was concerned that the expected GRUB placement
option did not appear, so I aborted and tried again, this time looking
in "expert", where there seemed to be confirmation that GRUB would go in
hda3, where I wanted it.
Further down the track, in hardware configuration, the graphics card
entry read "no proposal", and an error was flagged. But as the installer
seemed to have no problems with my graphics card I went ahead. The
update found only two very minor items, so I added Zen, rug, and the
Audacity I needed to test as a priority.
Problem 1: The installation finished, but instead of KDE I was presented
with a command line login, presumably due to the graphics card error.
Somewhat cheesed off, I rebooted.
Problem 2: in spite of the appearance of having put GRUB in hda3, the
install had evidently put it in the MBR of hda, wiping the previous GRUB
that booted my everyday FC4 on hdc. Not Nice.
Having rebuilt GRUB I am back in FC4. I had intended to move to SUSE
10.1 instead of FC5, but now I am considering Kubuntu Dapper, which
successfully upgraded from Breezy online.
I have yet to trawl the archives for a solution to these two problems,
and it is far too late at night here in the antipodes to start now. The
graphics card one sounds familiar, but the GRUB issue is new to me.
Every other install I have done has been very clear as to where GRUB is
to go, though FC4 consistently failed to put it anywhere, so fortunately
I had kept notes on how to create it.
I have been very impressed by the quality of the correspondence on this
list, so I hope I can find solutions and continue to run SUSE into the
future.
Andy Goss
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