Okay, I'm getting an odd feeling. I'm finding discrepancies between load media. Here's the situation. Two machines. A P4 at work An AMD64 at home. A couple of weeks ago, I loaded both boxes via the internet available code (not the eval, but the full load). On both boxes, I had a problem printing. There was nothing wrong, and no errors, they just wouldn't print. Then I bought the boxed set of Suse 9.2 Professional. (I like to do my part to support my distro of choice). I grabbed the CDs and took them to work to load the P4. I loaded the AMD64 at home from the DVD. The box at work now prints just fine. The box at home doesn't. It exhibits the same behaviour as it did from the net load. I have also noticed differences in the packages included. Some seem missing from one media to the other (more oddness). So, I got the thought that maybe, there's an odd problem with the DVD version, and thought I'd try loading the CD version on my AMD64. When the load first started it issued the warning: "You are about to load a 32 bit operating system on a 64 bit machine" What's up with that?!?! I backed out of the install until I could research this a little further. Is it REALLY going to load the 32bit version, or can you select the 64bit version a little further into the load? I have to admit that these kind of discrepenacies between media from the same disro/version/BOX is disturbing. I'm looking for any insights anyone can offer on this. Has anyone else had the opportunity to load from all 3 sources, and found differences? Thanks in advance! -Ric
Ric Tibbetts wrote:
I grabbed the CDs and took them to work to load the P4. OK, but there are more packages on the DVD than on the CDs. I loaded the AMD64 at home from the DVD. Correct. I have also noticed differences in the packages included. Some seem missing from one media to the other (more oddness). As stated above, there are more packages on the dual-layer 9.2 install DVD, which has 8.5GB of space, than on the 5 CDs (max of 5x700MB=3.5 GB of space), for reasons which should be obvious.
So, I got the thought that maybe, there's an odd problem with the DVD version, and thought I'd try loading the CD version on my AMD64. When the load first started it issued the warning: "You are about to load a 32 bit operating system on a 64 bit machine"
What's up with that?!?! Only the 32 bit version is available via the CDs( in 9.2 and 9.1). Use the DVD for the 64 bit version. Is it REALLY going to load the 32bit version, or can you select the 64bit version a little further into the load? AFAIK, it really is only the 32 bit version.
I have to admit that these kind of discrepenacies between media from the same disro/version/BOX is disturbing. Why? DVDs hold more than CDs, and purchased media can contain different packages than the free ftp version (which rules out some pay/ special license packages) I'm looking for any insights anyone can offer on this. Has anyone else had the opportunity to load from all 3 sources, and found differences?
This has been discussed at some great length before. Check Google. PS What exactly is your printer problem. That would be more profitable to discuss here than media differences. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
PS What exactly is your printer problem. That would be more profitable to discuss here than media differences.
I've already started a thread on the printer problem. The short story is: There seems to be nothing wrong with it. It simply doesn't work. It's an Epson Stylus Photo 785EPX (USB) printer. This machine is multi-boot, with WinXP, and Win2k residing on a different disk. Under those two OS's, it prints fine, so I know it's not the hardware. Under this version of Linux, it won't print. At all. The system "sees" the printer, and Yast correctly identifies it, and configures it. But when you send a job to it, nothing comes out. There's nothing in the logs that helps either. I went through them with another member of this list. I even updated cups, hoping that would help. No joy. I'm at a total loss. If you have any ideas, or suggestions, I'm very open at this point. -Ric
Ric Tibbetts <ric@chadera.net> writes:
Okay, I'm getting an odd feeling. I'm finding discrepancies between load media. Here's the situation. Two machines. A P4 at work An AMD64 at home.
A couple of weeks ago, I loaded both boxes via the internet available code (not the eval, but the full load). On both boxes, I had a problem printing. There was nothing wrong, and no errors, they just wouldn't print.
Then I bought the boxed set of Suse 9.2 Professional. (I like to do my part to support my distro of choice).
I grabbed the CDs and took them to work to load the P4. I loaded the AMD64 at home from the DVD.
The box at work now prints just fine. The box at home doesn't. It exhibits the same behaviour as it did from the net load.
I have also noticed differences in the packages included. Some seem missing from one media to the other (more oddness).
No - the CD is a clear subset of the DVD. Just do the maths yourself: 5 CDs a 650 MB vs. one DVD9 of 8.5 GB.
So, I got the thought that maybe, there's an odd problem with the DVD version, and thought I'd try loading the CD version on my AMD64. When the load first started it issued the warning: "You are about to load a 32 bit operating system on a 64 bit machine"
What's up with that?!?!
The CDs are only 32-bit. The DVD is both 32-bit and 64-bit.
I backed out of the install until I could research this a little further. Is it REALLY going to load the 32bit version, or can you select the 64bit version a little further into the load?
The former.
I have to admit that these kind of discrepenacies between media from the same disro/version/BOX is disturbing. I'm looking for any insights anyone can offer on this. Has anyone else had the opportunity to load from all 3 sources, and found differences?
What is the 3rd source for you? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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