[opensuse-factory] First impressions of 11.2
I just installed the 11.2 Milestone 1 DVD on my test system, an ancient Compaq Presario 2110US with 512 MB of RAM and a 1.6 GHz Athlon XP. First impressions: 1. The Synaptics Touchpad wasn't active on the DVD boot. I had to plug in a USB mouse or use ALT-<letter> commands to navigate the install menu. 2. After that, the install was fine. The only other comment I have, and this is common to earlier openSUSE installs as well, is that I haven't been able to set the host name during the install. It's not terribly obvious how to set it *after* the install, either. Have I missed something obvious, or does openSUSE not have a place to set the host name during an install? 3. The system, like 11.1, comes up with Beagle installed and running. This kills my 512 MB machine and I end up de-installing it as soon as I can. It can be disabled on a DVD or network install, but as far as I can tell it can't be disabled on an install from a LiveCD. Any chance of making the Beagle install optional in all cases? Other than that, everything looks good. I may put another hard drive in my workstation and dual-boot it with 11.2 just so I can hack on the stuff I really want to hack on -- cloud / virtualization. :) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky napsal(a):
I just installed the 11.2 Milestone 1 DVD on my test system, an ancient Compaq Presario 2110US with 512 MB of RAM and a 1.6 GHz Athlon XP. First impressions:
1. The Synaptics Touchpad wasn't active on the DVD boot. I had to plug in a USB mouse or use ALT-<letter> commands to navigate the install menu.
Hi, thanks for your impressions. I think that this should go to bugzilla as it looks like bug (please check if it is not already reported).
2. After that, the install was fine. The only other comment I have, and this is common to earlier openSUSE installs as well, is that I haven't been able to set the host name during the install. It's not terribly obvious how to set it *after* the install, either. Have I missed something obvious, or does openSUSE not have a place to set the host name during an install?
If you disable automatic configuration then you can set hostname.
3. The system, like 11.1, comes up with Beagle installed and running. This kills my 512 MB machine and I end up de-installing it as soon as I can. It can be disabled on a DVD or network install, but as far as I can tell it can't be disabled on an install from a LiveCD. Any chance of making the Beagle install optional in all cases?
I don't know universal case, but if you install from liveCD then if you uninstall beagle before live installation it should not has beagle. JR -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
josef reidinger wrote:
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky napsal(a):
I just installed the 11.2 Milestone 1 DVD on my test system, an ancient Compaq Presario 2110US with 512 MB of RAM and a 1.6 GHz Athlon XP. First impressions:
1. The Synaptics Touchpad wasn't active on the DVD boot. I had to plug in a USB mouse or use ALT-<letter> commands to navigate the install menu.
Hi, thanks for your impressions.
I think that this should go to bugzilla as it looks like bug (please check if it is not already reported).
2. After that, the install was fine. The only other comment I have, and this is common to earlier openSUSE installs as well, is that I haven't been able to set the host name during the install. It's not terribly obvious how to set it *after* the install, either. Have I missed something obvious, or does openSUSE not have a place to set the host name during an install?
If you disable automatic configuration then you can set hostname.
3. The system, like 11.1, comes up with Beagle installed and running. This kills my 512 MB machine and I end up de-installing it as soon as I can. It can be disabled on a DVD or network install, but as far as I can tell it can't be disabled on an install from a LiveCD. Any chance of making the Beagle install optional in all cases?
I don't know universal case, but if you install from liveCD then if you uninstall beagle before live installation it should not has beagle.
JR
I hit a problem with printing, late 11.2 Alpha0 and M1. My HP Photosmart C4180 looks OK, but it won't print. I set it up on 3 separate boxes, it broadcasts and the broadcasts are seen on all boxes on the network. I could get it to do cartridge alignment, but jobs just stay on the queue and "http://localhost:631" the printer goes from green to yellow and no errors reported under /var/log/cups. I set up a Lexmark z600 with the same result. Bug #498254 submitted. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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