The hard disk of my old Powebook G4 died yesterday, Nothing unexpected: the video did the same few months ago, and the internal DVD burner is long gone, making the installation a bit of a challenge... I bought a new HD (160 Gig, the HW sees it, pheew...), reinstalled Tiger on a small partition, and then went to Opensuse 11.1, with a fresh install (my 11.0 was an upgrade chain since 10.0). I burned the DVD on a PC, and booted it from my external USB DVD burner. The thing went alive, though at the first screen it did complain not beeing able to set up a repository, and started to ask me a name and a device. /dev/sr0 was the correct DVD, but I found no ways to make the installer use it. After aborting, I did a media check that passed. I tryed with the 11.0 and all seemed ok. I stopped just before the beginning of installation. The hardware seemed ok to me. So I tryed again with 11.1, got the same result as the firts time, went through the alt-FX screens and noticed a small "Could not start hald". Found a sharp (#) prompt, typed "hald" and... magic! The installer could find its repository! After that, the installation was ok. I noticed I have no OpenOffice on the DVD, all the rest was there and seems fine. I haven't found OpenOffice after the installation, even after having added almost all community repositories, so I've taken one from the 11.0 DVD. A bit tricky: I had to use --nodeps and had to restore the various libicu version 38 files from my backup. And gave up on the mailmerge, not wanting to mess-up with python versions. The other thing that seems problematic is gdm: when it shuts down it destroys the console fonts, so no message after that is readable. Nothing vital, tough it seems to indicate a hidden bug somewhere. I've noticed that gdm shows a users list (which halves the security) at the logon request. Is there a way to get rid of that? Cheers to everybody, luciano. -- /"\ /Via A. Salaino, 7 - 20144 Milano (Italy) \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / PHONE : +39 2 485781 FAX: +39 2 48578250 X AGAINST HTML MAIL / E-MAIL: posthamster@sublink.sublink.ORG / \ AND POSTINGS / WWW: http://www.mannucci.ORG/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org