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Thanks, i have got an e-mail thanking everyone in my Linux out box, but it's not working properly so won't send, anyway what I have noticed is that you can install suse on 2 computers and end up with something that looks different on each, which is kind of confusing, > Hello Folks > First a thank you to the four other LUG members that attended the > meeting at the Rugby Club last Thursday or was it the Thursday before. > I had a great time nice to meet you. > Next I have got round to installing Suse 9 from a copy Paul gave me at > the meeting. Many thanks Paul! > To save some head scratching I will list the things I found as problems. > > 1. if you try to update an existing Suse distribution it fails, in that > it finds many programs that it cannot handle and suggests you delete > them, I found no way round that one. I have found this too, with older versions. I just try a clean install, which is not much help unless you put /home/ on a partition on it's own and and remember not to format it !!!! > > 2. Be careful of excepting the monitor details it finds, it tried to put > mine at a far to big a resolution and frequency that it could not handle. > When I corrected it it complained and tried to put the settings back. > Beware. > Unlike with 8.2 this seem to work flawlessly, in fact I don't remember seeing a screen to set this up, i would copy your xf86config file to a floppy so you can restore if you have any problems later, or in case of reinstalling, unlike with windows you can do alt Fn to get to a console, and do it from there. > 3. When logged in as root or a user, a short cut is put on the desktop > called data1, linked to a file in root. > this contains a no of files and folders, not all makes sense. > One called windows contains shortcuts to any windows partitions or drive > on the machine (correctly identified) but they do not work. > The reason is that a fstab file is created to mount them but it is not > put in the /etc folder but left in the /data1/etc folder, also the > /windows folder is not created in root. > So to get it to work the fstab file must be copyed/moved to the correct > place in /etc replacing the one in there and a /windows folder created > in root with the same information on the windows partition/drives as > seen in the fstab from /data1/etc . > Again I will have a look. > 4. Kwrite bombs out with an error and loses data if you 'save as'. > Koffice is still in early stages i think, and seems to do this quite a lot, I use open office, > 5. It is not possible to create a boot or rescue floppy, it reports no > image found. It will boot from the CD with a rescue system. I will look in to this one, > I hope this is of help to someone. > comments please > Trevor > > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the > message body to unsubscribe. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.530 / Virus Database: 325 - Release Date: 22/10/03 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.