[opensuse-project] Unable to Install cause of too old drivers, due to long release cycles
Dear List, I had the problem that on my server computer the mainboard crashed. So I had to buy a new one and tried to use the old CPU, Memory, Grapik and Storage. As the Intel 775 Socket is widely known it was easy to find a suitable board, but the old chipset wasn't reachable. As I had to buy a new and not a used one, it was ok for me to fetch a modern chipset. But openSuSE 11,1 was unable to boot, because cdrom or storage weren't excessible( not found). This was due to the new chipset. I use SuSe for many year's as a user and not so far as an admin. That's why I was unable to solve the problem. As I had no ideas I used other distro's. All of them had the same problem, since there came a new release. After a new release I was able to boot and successfully install the other distro's. As SuSestudio was launched I hoped my dreams come through and I will be able to build just a small one for myself for installation. But it was not possible, even the new builded one's crashed. For the opensuse studio I need an "updated" Kernel & driver just to boot modern hardware. After that I will be able to come along. My intension is to give a distribution a new "Kernel & Driver" without testing and verifying the hole buch of software. The endusersoftware and features should kept untouched.So the release has the same usability/features. To get it clear: These "Kernel"-releases are only for installation issues during boot and absolutely not for any software problem. For software issues is the updater ok and does a good work (in my opinion). I am worrying about the release cycles of 8 months as very long hope you find my tip useful just to help the community to install on modern hardware. regards Lars -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org
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Jason Perlow
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Lars Steen
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Mark Gray
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Per Jessen