Installation Information, Please
I am going to load SuSE onto a "small" (2GB) hard drive on my lapotop. I have three questions: 1. If I just let SuSE install itself, will SuSE simply load everything on a single partition or will it set up partitions optimally, given the disk space? If not, how should I divide up the 2GB? 2. Any problems with SuSE recognizing and accommodating for PCMCIA slots? 3. Any way I can get SuSE to use Gnome rather than KDE? Thanks Dennis J. Tuchler Professor of Law 3700 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, Mo. 63108 314-977-2793
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:58, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
I am going to load SuSE onto a "small" (2GB) hard drive on my lapotop. I have three questions:
1. If I just let SuSE install itself, will SuSE simply load everything on a single partition or will it set up partitions optimally, given the disk space? If not, how should I divide up the 2GB?
2. Any problems with SuSE recognizing and accommodating for PCMCIA slots?
3. Any way I can get SuSE to use Gnome rather than KDE?
Hi Dennis, Always happy to help out a fellow lawyer...:-) SuSE 7.1 (which I'm installing on my Libretto at the moment) works fine on a 2Gb drive...... I can give you a step-by-step if you need it, but the salient points to remember are; 1. Don't select EVERYTHING - it's not pretty...:-) 2. If you're booting from a PCMCIA CD-ROM, you *could* experience problems depending on your hardware (I boot the install stuff from a floppy - it prompts me for the Modules floppy and then dies becaise my floppy is a PCMCIA one and it can't read the disk to get the drivers to read the disk.....:-) 3. Gnome works fine - I switch between the two constantly, tryiing to decide what I like best... It would help if we knew the specs of your laptop and what version you were planning to install. Jon BA.LlB - Sydney
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 12.13, Jon Biddell wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:58, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
I am going to load SuSE onto a "small" (2GB) hard drive on my lapotop. I have three questions:
1. If I just let SuSE install itself, will SuSE simply load everything on a single partition or will it set up partitions optimally, given the disk space? If not, how should I divide up the 2GB? I recently installed SuSE 7.2 on a HP Omnibook XE2, it was as easy as adding cream to the coffee. If Linux is the only OS on your harddisk you don't have to bother about the partitions at all other than making sure that there will exist a swap partition. You can make a minimal installation and then add the things you need with YaST (I prefer using YaST1 for that).
2. Any problems with SuSE recognizing and accommodating for PCMCIA slots?
On my HP it recognized everything except the modem.
3. Any way I can get SuSE to use Gnome rather than KDE?
You are the boss and you decide... :-) Exclude KDE, and add Gnome instead. Get back here if you need further information on how you do that.
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It would help if we knew the specs of your laptop and what version you were planning to install. Yeah, that's right!
Jon BA.LlB - Sydney
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:52:59 +0200, Helgi �rn wrote:
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 12.13, Jon Biddell wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:58, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
I am going to load SuSE onto a "small" (2GB) hard drive on my lapotop. I have three questions:
1. If I just let SuSE install itself, will SuSE simply load everything on a single partition or will it set up partitions optimally, given the disk space? If not, how should I divide up the 2GB? I recently installed SuSE 7.2 on a HP Omnibook XE2, it was as easy as adding cream to the coffee. If Linux is the only OS on your harddisk you don't have to bother about the partitions at all other than making sure that there will exist a swap partition.
It'll share the laptop with a pared-down OS/2
You can make a minimal installation and then add the things you need with YaST (I prefer using YaST1 for that).
Exclude KDE, and add Gnome instead. Get back here if you need further information on how you do that.
Please... The last time I installed SuiSE, it was the normal installation and it picked the desktop for me. I got no options. So, How do I go about selecting Gnome? Dennis J. Tuchler Professor of Law 3700 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, Mo. 63108 314-977-2793
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 16.57, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
Please... The last time I installed SuiSE, it was the normal installation and it picked the desktop for me. I got no options. So, How do I go about selecting Gnome?
With only 2GB space I would simply not make a *normal* installation, the possibilities to adjust the installation the way you want are (almost) endless. I'd make a minimal installation with X, reboot and install what I need with YaST1, I did this recently on a laptop with only 32RAM which means that there was no change of running KDE on it. After the minimal installation you can install Gnome with YaST1. Cheers, Helgi Örn -- Frige Karolina Johnsson -- Skriv under Petitionen -------------------http://www.release.nu/------------------- Release Karolina Johnsson ------ Sign the Petition
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:13:20 +1000, Jon Biddell wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:58, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
I am going to load SuSE onto a "small" (2GB) hard drive on my lapotop. I have three questions:
1. If I just let SuSE install itself, will SuSE simply load everything on a single partition or will it set up partitions optimally, given the disk space? If not, how should I divide up the 2GB?
2. Any problems with SuSE recognizing and accommodating for PCMCIA slots?
3. Any way I can get SuSE to use Gnome rather than KDE?
It would help if we knew the specs of your laptop and what version you were planning to install.
It's an old IBM laptop which does not boot from a cdrom. I'm planning on installing 7.3 when it comes. How much space does the normal installation take? Dennis J. Tuchler Professor of Law 3700 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, Mo. 63108 314-977-2793
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It's an old IBM laptop which does not boot from a cdrom. I'm planning on installing 7.3 when it comes. How much space does the normal installation take?
Boy. Guaging from 7.2, it's going to be a squeeze if you use SuSE's default package selection. Guys, I can get a fully-functional (if not integrated) KDE desktop system with tonnes of development tools and libs in under 400MB on other distributions; why is SuSE such a pig? ;) If I were you, I'd start with the "Minimum plus X" package selection, and then add whatever else you need from there (desktop environments, window managers, compilers, etc); following this procedure, it should work fine. I just did an install a few nights ago on a 1.2G disk this way. ===== -- -=|JP|=- Hit me! - http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ Jon Pennington | Debian 2.3 -o) cowboydren @ yahoo . com | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | ICQ UIN 69 67 29 31 _\_V __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
It would help if we knew the specs of your laptop and what version you were planning to install.
It's an old IBM laptop which does not boot from a cdrom. I'm planning on installing 7.3 when it comes. How much space does the normal installation take?
Provided that the install disk can load a module that will allow it to look at the CD-ROM (in the case of SCSI), they you're OK. Default (minimal) install WITHOUT StarOffice is about 350Mb - I'm installing Gnome / KDE2 and StarOffice 6.0 beta on my 2Gb and still have about 600Mb+ left.... Just don't install the sources unles you really REALLY need them. Jon
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