OK, give up, but then, only after a last attempt, .... but .... following these steps : 1.- get the disk managment sftware from the web of the manufacturer of Yr HDD. 2.- with the zerofill exe of the managment diskette fill the full HDD with zeros. 3.- boot from Yr SuSE CD/DVD and re-install. Don't install the full stuff, just standard install with Office. Do it thru Yast1 instead of Yast2. (this is done as follows : just when the very first image of the install appears, type : manual. Later You get the choice between Yast1 and Yast2. Choose Yast1. If this works, but KDE dioesn't start comes back to this humoristic community (Gates is very sad), and w'll guide You in the xf86config configuration (don't use another one the first time). 4.- if that doesn't work, do the same but with the sh... windows. 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.
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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