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[NMLUG] 64-bit SuSE
Not to start a flame war or anything, but have you considered trying
Gentoo? Not suggesting you stay there, just that you might have some
success with installation, which could give you insight into a SUSE install.
Of course, the Gentoo install could fall completely flat too, and then you'd
probably have even less of an idea how to proceed...
I've got a couple of dual Xeon boxes with SATA HD on them. They are
currently running MS Server 2003, eek!
So, I have slightly more than academic interest... but only slightly as I
probably wouldn't be allowed to leave them running Linux/GNU.
Definitely best of luck, though.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron NMLUG-EV" <aaron@boim.com>
To: "New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List" <nmlug@nmlug.org>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [NMLUG] 64-bit SuSE
>> Aaron:
>>
>> You can start up an install without a disk drive so that's not it -
>>
>> Are you saying that the system won't boot from the dvd?
>
> I got a little farther.
> The DVD is ATA, but the HDD is SATA.
> We hacked on the BIOS for a while, and got it past
> asking for the driver floppy. I dunno what we did
> different, but it seems to get past that point now.
>
> Now yast is complaining that there is something wrong
> with the DVD image, it lists NO packages, and refuses to continue.
>
> I haven't hacked on the mini install yet, but so far
> it did not detect our network, and will not allow FTP install.
> Even if it did configure the NIC properly, it will be tricky
> since we use proxies behind a firewall.
>
> Again, we are happy to pay some 3-figure sum to SuSE for
> a little install and upgrade support, its just a pain
> to get such payments authorized. What service should we get?
> I see very little value in those boxed sets for me.
> With the Intel 64-bit SMP, we might need to be burning some
> disks and building kernels anyway. Install support could be
> of good value to us though.
>
> Thanx for any more hints...
>
> aaron
>
>
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