I wonder if the 2 GB requirement is the source of the problem.
Me thinks you have hit upon the problem, just not enough disk space for more than a default install. SuSE is pretty good about detecting what and how much can be installed. Based on my experience with a 233mhz, 96mb ram and a 2 gb hard drive, what Clayton is experiencing is normal and the best you might hope for on such a small hard drive. Want all the bells & whistles, then give it enough space to install them.
I see your point (1.7GB is pushing the lower limits), but why then would the selections for Minimum, and Minimum with GUI be missing from the software selection screen? Why have Default only? And that Default be missing what makes Linux useable for the new user? (it includes just barely enough to boot Linux... even network support is missing and had to be manually added) Why not make Minimum with GUI available? This would make sense rather than ending up with as my friend put it "a 1.7 gig, 400MHZ, super vga... DOS prompt." A Minimum system with GUI would fit nicely on a 1.7GB hard drive with plenty of room left over for playing space in /home. I know it is, because I've done it with SuSE8.0 on a P75 sitting here in my office. Unless I find a solution to this problem, I have lost my case with my friends... he's ready to wipe the whole thing and reinstall WinNT, and the othes who are watching... well... this is their first impression. Not a good one for an OS distribution that is supposed to be stable and run on modest hardware. I don't get it... I have had no problems with 8.1 (that weren't my own doing or hardware failures). C.