** You suposed to say CUT! You not suposed to just watching . - Jackie Chan Shanghai Knights out takes ** Hey guys , got two easy peasy 9.0 installs, one w/ dvd and one w/ cds... trying now for most of the day to install via cds on a Micron one ide hd on ide cd player/recorder etc... about 500 meg ram, 8.2 installed, and after we couldn't get 9.0 installed we reinstalled 8.2 no problems no weird choices or setings ... it gets as far as setting up the ramdisk and then it just stops... hrmmm, a few tests ( as in; he tried to setup his desktop) later , we are still in 8.2 for the less observant ) there are all sorts of crashes and lockups and general uselessness ( can't do anything at all , except kill off that hideous busy curser) used sax2 to set the screen better, at least it now has eth monitor and video card set ... any attempt to change users gets a message that the spalsh screen has crashed... and would you like to send a report to the writer... but that crashes as well... SO now, I am in a ral muddle, I have no idea what could be wrong w/ that box... only that it had an "incident" a few weeks ago which scrambled something .. fsked it and reformatted and reinstalled 8.2 no improvement... I would be excessively greatful for any one who could point me in any direction, not including toss the box into the bin and start over w/ a new one ( which I may be doing if it can't be fixored easily and damned quickly.. ( we have til late Sunday night EST) I HATE HARDWARE ... I am waiting, somewhat impatiently to be sure, for the nanocomputers.. especially as I was promised they will be able to self heal before we are awayre of any problem.... now THAT would be a computer... (G) AND speaking of new computers.... BTW , does anyone know if Suse plans to release a version to run on IBMs new PPC boxes? ( gee, they didn't abandon that hardware even tho they said they would... guess they got that shoe salesman or cracker salesman out of there just in time!) However there was this snippet in a news report recently anyone have any info ???
AND *aggressuvely* priced Powerpc hardware !! oooooh yummy! TIA y'all
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