[SLE] Problems with 6.3 install
I tried using yast2, but apparently there is no way to tell it how you want the partitions laid out, which I find hard to believe. I have an IDE hard drive in the machine with Red Hat, and put in a new SCSI hard drive to install Suse on. However, when I told it I wanted to install Suse on sda1, with the intention of using the swap partition already existing on hda4, it insisted on creating a swap partition on sda. I could see no way of changing it. When running yast during installation, I wish it told me what was different about the package configurations. What is "Office server"? There were so many packages selected it would not fit on my 2G drive. I found it very hard to go in and out of the package lists deselecting packages I didn't want, including some with German documentation. When running yast after installation, I selected a Logitech mouse, and checked ChordingEnabled. When I tried to startx, it told me that option was only valid with the Microsoft protocol. So I went back in yast to change it, but I kept getting the same error message. I could not get dhclient talking to MediaOne RoadRunner (I have posted a separate message on that). When in KDE, I brought up the dhcp configuration (assuming I could configure the client there too). When I pressed Help, I got the message "Cannot open /opt/kde/share/doc/html/default/kcontrol/kcmdhcp/index.html." If so many people had problems with it in 6.2, why did they include it in 6.3? Cut and paste did not work in KDE. right-click and chording both brought up a popup menu. I'm not trying to be a crybaby, I would just like to know if I was doing something wrong. Any advice? -- 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 FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, David Kramer wrote:
I tried using yast2, but apparently there is no way to tell it how you want the partitions laid out, which I find hard to believe. I have an IDE hard drive in the machine with Red Hat, and put in a new SCSI hard drive to install Suse on. However, when I told it I wanted to install Suse on sda1, with the intention of using the swap partition already existing on hda4, it insisted on creating a swap partition on sda. I could see no way of changing it.
I had the same problem today also, but the docs say this, Yast2 does alot more guessing, if you have a specific set of partitions you want to use (and you do) use the original yast (boot from disk 2)
When running yast during installation, I wish it told me what was different about the package configurations. What is "Office server"? There were so many packages selected it would not fit on my 2G drive. I
Same problem yast2 apparently asks less questions, and assumes more, I also couldn't fit 'Defailt' plus a couple of add-ons on my 2 gig either I suppose using yast 1 will give more flexability.
found it very hard to go in and out of the package lists deselecting packages I didn't want, including some with German documentation.
Cut and paste did not work in KDE. right-click and chording both brought up a popup menu.
Yeah, me too. Why doesnt cut and paste work correctly? I think that 3-button emulation is not quite right. I wish that CTRL-C and CTRL-V worked as part of KDE, and not just in specific tools that support it it like Netscape or emacs. marlon -- 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 FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I did the installation in an extraordinarily boneheaded way that seems to have worked. Since there appears to be no way to avoid YAST2 if you boot the CD, and since YAST2 looked suspiciously as though it was about to nuke everything in my 6.2 installation, I booted from the 6.2 CD and let regular YAST load, then swapped the 6.3 CD in and did a routine YAST package upgrade. I later had to reconfigure my network card by hand, but 6.3 seems now to be working flawlessly. --Kevin On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Marlon Urias wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, David Kramer wrote:
I tried using yast2, but apparently there is no way to tell it how you want the partitions laid out, which I find hard to believe. I have an IDE hard drive in the machine with Red Hat, and put in a new SCSI hard drive to install Suse on. However, when I told it I wanted to install Suse on sda1, with the intention of using the swap partition already existing on hda4, it insisted on creating a swap partition on sda. I could see no way of changing it.
I had the same problem today also, but the docs say this, Yast2 does alot more guessing, if you have a specific set of partitions you want to use (and you do) use the original yast (boot from disk 2)
When running yast during installation, I wish it told me what was different about the package configurations. What is "Office server"? There were so many packages selected it would not fit on my 2G drive. I
Same problem yast2 apparently asks less questions, and assumes more, I also couldn't fit 'Defailt' plus a couple of add-ons on my 2 gig either I suppose using yast 1 will give more flexability.
found it very hard to go in and out of the package lists deselecting packages I didn't want, including some with German documentation.
Cut and paste did not work in KDE. right-click and chording both brought up a popup menu.
Yeah, me too. Why doesnt cut and paste work correctly? I think that 3-button emulation is not quite right. I wish that CTRL-C and CTRL-V worked as part of KDE, and not just in specific tools that support it it like Netscape or emacs. marlon
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* klcroxen@fas.harvard.edu (klcroxen@fas.harvard.edu) [20000130 13:39]:
have worked. Since there appears to be no way to avoid YAST2 if you boot the CD,
Yes there is :) Simply boot from CD2, which will give you YaST1. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrenstrasse 15-29, 90429 Nuremberg Life is an ocean and love is a boat, in troubled waters, it keeps us afloat Christy Moore -- 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 FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
* Marlon Urias (nolram@ocf.Berkeley.EDU) [20000130 10:09]:
I suppose using yast 1 will give more flexability.
It definitely does. YaST2's package selection is rather limited on 6.3 (will be expanded for 6.4), but YaST1 gives you full choice. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> SuSE GmbH, Deutschherrenstrasse 15-29, 90429 Nuremberg Life is an ocean and love is a boat, in troubled waters, it keeps us afloat Christy Moore -- 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 FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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