On Thursday 25 September 2003 10:30 am, Maureen Crothall wrote:
Hello,
I've just this morning discovered this mailing list. <snip> Can you honestly tell me if Suse is OK for a complete newbie?
I'd have to say yes. I was in your situation two years ago(?). One of the main reasons I chose SuSE was this list. Compared to some of the red hat user groups and lists, the people here seemed far more eager to help out the newbies.
The installation is the part that scares me the most, I've tried hard to check all my stuff against hardware compatibility lists, Suse page for this seems to bugger up a lot, while trying to check burners it would suddenly start showing printers or sound cards. Some opinions or help as to ease of install would be very much appreciated. At the moment I am using Windows 98SE, I have a 5 year old IMB Aptiva with a second hard drive added, the original is 4 gigs and the second one is 3 gigs. The memory is upgraded to 160. I'm thinking to do a duel boot for a while, if I have enough room for both. (Drive One = 1.38 used/2.61 free/ Drive Two = .821 used/ 2.14 free.) (Drive Two can fluctuant a lot depending on digital camera images and music being and not yet transferred to disc.) Thanks for any tips or support offered:O)
All should go fine. I remember being frightened for my first install. You may have to go into the expert or manual partitioning section during the setup because Yast2 likes to take as much space as it can get. So it may try to gobble up all the free space available. IMHO I'd do a minimal graphic install with gnome on your first hard drive and leave the space on the second disk for your pictures and stuff. If you want to do a full install it maybe worthwhile to see if you can add a bigger disk or another disk. SuSE can install a lot of stuff for you to play with.and you may lose all your free space. But you can worry about that later. -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro