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On Friday 07 June 2002 11:12, you wrote:
.1 have tried that but it wont boot,gave up with 7.1 as well in the end ( got it installed but couldnt configer the graphics..as have old Monitor with no details and Vesa drivers no BG..flickery screen was enough to drve anyone round the bend in windows its all plug and play!..why make it hard!!) Do you really need to be a Linux " Geek" (sorry) to install any Linux programme..M Hirons ( PS yes I know about Yast2..not much success with that either..!!
Phew, try using some full stops and paragraphs, man ;-) I'm afraid only have a brief experience of SuSE when I installed 7.1 because the guy who was sent to "buy linux" got that one, as it had the biggest box (as good a reason as any, IMHO!). I tried installing it on some fairly old hardware, but kinda gave up and begged for mercy. As soon as the accountant had nodded his magic head, they gave me £200 to spend on hardware and I had built a new machine and got linux up and running that afternoon 8-) Anyway, to address some of your points: If you don't have any details for your monitor, just choose one of the "standard" options. Try moving down the list (ie. increasing in specification) until it blows up ;-) If you just get a blank or garbled screen, you've reached its limits. Just wait a few seconds and leave it on the last setting that worked. If that's still flickery, buy a decent screen! I agree that having to unpack tarballs and compile code yourself is a bit of a pain in the arse. I haven't got an amazingly fast machine, either, so it tends to take a while. What's even worse is when you go through that and find it doesn't work, usually due to an "unsatisfied dependency" on a library you don't have. That said, most programs are available in RPM format (at least the stable versions, anyway). Download that and type 'rpm -i <filename>' and that's about it! Often it will spit out a list of 'unsatisfied dependencies', but if you search for these on http://fr2.rpmfind.net you will usually find packages that provide this libraries quite quickly. I guess it would be nice if there was a program that could search (and maybe even download and install) these libraries automatically for you; does anyone know if such a program is available? Jon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.