stephan beal wrote:
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 07:08, John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 23 October 2006 19:47, Basil Chupin wrote:
I'll add to this if I may.
I found out last night that SLED is like M$ XP where it will not boot on a computer on which it was not originally installed. Install it on one computer and try to run it on another and... you get the 2-finger salute. What do you mean install on one computer and try to run on another?
Did you mean try to install it again on another?
Its a paid product. Nuf said.
It sounds like(?) he means that he installed the system then moved the hard drive to another(??). In many cases this won't work with Linux without some kernel/driver/fstab/X11 reconfiguration. This type of "install" has nothing to do with Suse being M$-like, though. It's normally easier (IMO) to reinstall the OS from scratch on the new system, rather than try to reconfigure an installed copy for another machine.
You're right: I installed SLED 10.0 on one computer (my 'testbed') and then moved the HD (all my HDs are in cradles) to my 'main' computer (because I was trying to fix the reiserfs problem--remember?--on the 'testbed' computer). I must be the exception then from what you say above because I have no problems with moving distros (except SLED) from one computer to another. I insalled 10.1 on my 'testbed' then took it across to my wife's computer and she's been running it now for weeks. The only minor problem that happens is that one has to make sure that the entries in fstab match the 'new' computer- otherwise no other problems. Cheers. -- This morning my administration released the budget numbers for fiscal 2006. These budget numbers are not just estimates; these are the actual results for the fiscal year that ended February the 30th. George W. Bush 11 Oct 2006