https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278679 Summary: Need to re-evauate min system requirements in printed materia on page 3 1.1 Hardwarerequirements Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: i386 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Usability AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: scocoo@tpg.com.au QAContact: siegfried.olschner@novell.com I started an insllation on at P3 1.0 Ghz total of 384 GIG of physical RAM well within the suggested minimum standards currently defined. Due to insufficient memory the GUI installation was not possible so went through the laborious tasks of using the text based install. By the time I had reached the commit installation I have already used up 12 man hours as I needed to remove the windows partition, create a / partition and /home partition and a swap file of aprox 580GB. The installation of duisk 1, 3 and 6 took in access of 24 hours after acceptance. Upon finish of installation. It is clear that even a P3 with just over the stated Physical memory where installaton has to be done via text to be completely unacceptable. Not there was NO issue in a GUI installation of MS Windows 2000. We need to re-evaluate our minimum physical memory to 512GB where thee is no integrated graphics card and stipulate min memory on video card. If someone with an older system was to believe their old P2 with 512 GIG RAM without a independent graphics card of x MB - I double with the GUI installation would finish below 16 hours in which the new user is likely to toss it out and retain Windows 2000 which loads in a matter of hours with full GUI installation facilities. We need to d some serious testing of the current range of P1-4 with 256IG of RAM and HDD space and start stipulating Video Card (seperate not shared) resources far more clearly. GUI has loaded on the test PC, however it is basically useless because of the time delay in actioning GUI interface commands. NO other errors were encountered during installation - but we need to physically test our claims on restricted performance PC's before we loose a lof business. Windows 2000 is actually usable in the above - I cannot see with our more advanced GUI why we cannot surpass this. Discussions is warranted at suse.de -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.