On Tuesday 06 November 2001 20:10, Dave Barton wrote:
Having spent endless hours and hundreds of dollars trying to get Suse Linux Pro 7.3 working, I have finally conceded defeat. In my opinion Linux is still a very long way from being an OS for the mainstream user. Some (or many) may say that my defeat is due to my own ignorance and/or stupidity. That may or may not be true, but I can no longer afford the time or apply the mental gymnastics needed to work out the cryptic keyboard incantations to make Linux a useable OS.
I see that you are a software developer, Dave, working with the Kodak SDK. With such a technical background, how is it that you are having so much trouble? SInce SuSE 7.3 Pro is only $70 I am curious how you could spend "hundreds" of dollars getting it to work? Did you buy a bunch of hardware? (And if you did, how is that different from having to upgrade hardware to run each new upgrade of WinXX?) Were you trying to 'dual boot' and put both Linux and Windows partitions on your HD? In my experience SuSE 7.3 was a total joy to install. My clean install was by far the most hands-free I've ever experienced with either Linux or Windows. BTW, Boot your floppy and run "fdisk /mbr" to restore the Master Boot Record on the HD. What 'cryptic keyboard incantations' were you trying to make, and why? Didn't you use YaST2? If not, why not? Jerry
Before I sign off from this list and slip back into the not-so-comfortable arms of M$, could someone tell me how to repartition the HDD where I had installed Linux, so that I can reformat it for FAT32. Running M$'s fdisk from a bootable floppy fails when the HDD has been formatted for Linux.
Thanks & Regards Dave Barton
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