Installing SuSE 8.0 on Dell Inspiron 8200
Freude schoner Gotterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmliche dein Heiligtum! SuSE 8.0 arrived on my front porch last night. In honor of the fine folks who labored so long and hard at Software und Systementwicklung, I fired up Beethoven's Ninth and started installing it on my new Dell Inspiron 8200. Setup took no time flat. I had previously saved my /etc and /home directories, so I did a new install, creating a 200 MB root volume (ReiserFS) and making an LVM partition for the rest. (What can I say - I think LVM is the greatest thing since sliced raisin bread.) Everything went fine until the reboot. When the boot process got to "loading kernel PCMCIA," it locked up solid. A quick search of the SuSE Support Database gave some good hints. They put PCMCIA in the kernel for 8.0. Powered off machine, restarted with "linux NOPCMCIA=yes" at the lilo prompt, and the system came right up. Edited /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, changing PCMCIA_SYSTEM= to "external". Rebooted - yeah! SuSE rules! I already had a properly working XF86Config file from SuSE 7,3, so I really didn't do anything except run Sax2 so it would link the right X server, then replaced the resultant config file with my old one. The built-in Ethernet and sound chip were detected immediately and have no problems. I also like the default security - no Telnet, no FTP, no Sendmail. The only ports that show up on an nmap scan are SSH, RPC, and X11. I liked the old default SuSE wallpaper, but this new pattern is even nicer. Kudos to all at SuSE! Bill Sheehan Postmaster 617-373-7927
SuSE 8.0 arrived on my front porch last night. In honor of the fine folks who labored so long and hard at Software und Systementwicklung, I fired up Beethoven's Ninth and started installing it on my new Dell Inspiron 8200.
I didn't even know Beethoven's Ninth HAD an install option... (-8 Greg
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 14:52, Greg Hicks wrote:
SuSE 8.0 arrived on my front porch last night. In honor of the fine folks who labored so long and hard at Software und Systementwicklung, I fired up Beethoven's Ninth and started installing it on my new Dell Inspiron 8200.
I didn't even know Beethoven's Ninth HAD an install option...
The install program is on the cdrom with Beethoven's 1st. djtuchler
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:08:42PM -0500, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
I didn't even know Beethoven's Ninth HAD an install option...
The install program is on the cdrom with Beethoven's 1st.
djtuchler
That's right. I checked the .spec files and all symphonies after the 1st are dependent on the 1st. I had to patch the 3rd to get it compile with gcc 3.0 though. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
Ah, that explains it, my dog ate install disk #1, someone have a replacement I can get? Greg -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Tuchler [mailto:dtuchler@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:09 PM To: S.u.S.E. mailing list Subject: RE: [SLE] Installing SuSE 8.0 on Dell Inspiron 8200 On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 14:52, Greg Hicks wrote:
SuSE 8.0 arrived on my front porch last night. In honor of the fine folks who labored so long and hard at Software und Systementwicklung, I fired up Beethoven's Ninth and started installing it on my new Dell Inspiron 8200.
I didn't even know Beethoven's Ninth HAD an install option...
The install program is on the cdrom with Beethoven's 1st. djtuchler -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com
Are you talking floppy or CD ? -----Original Message----- From: Greg Hicks [mailto:ghicks@ramko.com] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 4:13 PM To: Dennis Tuchler; S.u.S.E. mailing list Subject: RE: [SLE] Installing SuSE 8.0 on Dell Inspiron 8200 Ah, that explains it, my dog ate install disk #1, someone have a replacement I can get? Greg -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Tuchler [mailto:dtuchler@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:09 PM To: S.u.S.E. mailing list Subject: RE: [SLE] Installing SuSE 8.0 on Dell Inspiron 8200 On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 14:52, Greg Hicks wrote:
SuSE 8.0 arrived on my front porch last night. In honor of the fine folks who labored so long and hard at Software und Systementwicklung, I fired up Beethoven's Ninth and started installing it on my new Dell Inspiron 8200.
I didn't even know Beethoven's Ninth HAD an install option...
The install program is on the cdrom with Beethoven's 1st. djtuchler
8-1/2 floppy, I believe ??
* W.D.McKinney
Are you talking floppy or CD ?
-----Original Message----- From: Greg Hicks [mailto:ghicks@ramko.com] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 4:13 PM To: Dennis Tuchler; S.u.S.E. mailing list Subject: RE: [SLE] Installing SuSE 8.0 on Dell Inspiron 8200
Ah, that explains it, my dog ate install disk #1, someone have a replacement I can get? Greg
-----Original Message----- From: Dennis Tuchler [mailto:dtuchler@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:09 PM To: S.u.S.E. mailing list Subject: RE: [SLE] Installing SuSE 8.0 on Dell Inspiron 8200
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 14:52, Greg Hicks wrote:
SuSE 8.0 arrived on my front porch last night. In honor of the fine folks who labored so long and hard at Software und Systementwicklung, I fired up Beethoven's Ninth and started installing it on my new Dell Inspiron 8200.
I didn't even know Beethoven's Ninth HAD an install option...
The install program is on the cdrom with Beethoven's 1st.
djtuchler
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Hey, I've demonstrated my intelligence and good sense by purchasing SuSE 8.0, my erudition by quoting Schiller, and my impeccable taste by mentioning Beethoven. What more do you want? <grin> Seriously, sorry about that. It never fails: I dash something off to an Internet mailing list, where it will be seen by the teaming masses and stored for posterity on Google, and only after I hit "Send" do I find I've done violence to the English language. An memory from thirty years ago flashes before my eyes: a tiny English teacher, about five years older than God, is rocking up on the balls of her feet and declaiming in sorrowful tones, "This is thine own, thy native tongue!" Sorry, Mrs. McGann, wherever you are... -- Bill On Friday 26 April 2002 03:52 pm, Greg Hicks wrote:
SuSE 8.0 arrived on my front porch last night. In honor of the fine folks who labored so long and hard at Software und Systementwicklung, I fired up Beethoven's Ninth and started installing it on my new Dell Inspiron 8200.
I didn't even know Beethoven's Ninth HAD an install option...
(-8
Greg
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