Does anybody have an tips for installing it, or any opinions, because I don't want to download something that big for nothing. How newbie-friendly is it? I have some experience with Ubuntu, but that's it.

SUSE 10.0
#1
Posted 22 October 2005 - 11:06 AM

Does anybody have an tips for installing it, or any opinions, because I don't want to download something that big for nothing. How newbie-friendly is it? I have some experience with Ubuntu, but that's it.
#2
Posted 22 October 2005 - 06:03 PM

now for the bad news

unlike Ubuntu where you have free support coming out your ears, including an IRC chatroom, SuSe makes you pay for support, an doesn't have live support via IRC.
I dropped SuSe after 48 hours and went to Ubuntu because it had some issues with my hardware, specifically my cd drives. it would open them whenever it wanted to, it was like my machine was haunted.
thats the extent of help I can give on SuSe, Now I'm a Ubuntu fanatic

Edited by Efwis, 22 October 2005 - 06:07 PM.
#3
Posted 22 October 2005 - 09:43 PM

Now I'm running into a partition dilemma. I have an 80 GB HDD with a corrupt XP (can still access most of my old files), after it became corrupt I purchased a 120 GB HDD to save the files to. I partitioned 110 GB for XP and 10 GB for the Ubuntu partitions.
About how much space would you recommend for SUSE (including swap and everything else) and can the installer shrink the existing Windows partition on my 80 GB HDD, or should I just use Partition Magic to do it?
Also, should I use the Ubuntu swap partition, or just use make a new one.
PS: Thanks for your opinion on SUSE!

Edited by Pi rules, 22 October 2005 - 09:43 PM.
#4
Posted 23 October 2005 - 06:39 AM

Most of the information on the other 4 disks from Suse would be the optional programs like you would get from the Ubuntu repos,
SUSE Linux 10.0
Hardware Requirements
SUSE Linux supports most PC hardware components. The following requirements should be met to ensure smooth operation of SUSE Linux 10.0:
- Processor: Intel: Pentium 1-4 or Xeon; AMD: Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon MP, Athlon 64, Sempron or Opteron
- Main memory: At least 256 MB; 512 MB recommended
- Hard disk: At least 500 MB for minimal system; 2.5 GB recommended for standard system
- Sound and graphics cards: Supports most modern sound and graphics cards
dealing with partition sizing, the Suse installer should help you with that.
Suse will overwrite the Ubuntu swap so that it can use it.unless you want both of them, then you need to make a seperate swap partition.
Edited by Efwis, 23 October 2005 - 06:45 AM.
#5
Posted 23 October 2005 - 07:16 AM


I had sound problems with Ubuntu as well; I just played around with Alsamixer and fixed it.
I think I'll install it later this morning (morning for me at least). I'll post back with the results. I think I'll shrink the corrupted XP partition and just make a new swap partition for it, because the other one is on my primary HDD.
Edit: I just thought of one more question...
Will it reinstall GRUB on my primary MBR, or should I tell it not to install it and just modify my other one with Ubuntu?
Edit 2: Ignore the previous edit. I just installed it (erasing the Ubuntu partition, I found out that it couldn't shrink existing partitions) and everything went fine until I got to the desktop when I couldn't read anything and the graphics were horrific. I played with some settings (not very easily, I'm used to Gnome, but I chose KDE) mostly blind, and then I restarted, and it was OK! SUSE seems to be a very good OS so far!
PS: I ordered some Ubuntu CDs, so when they come, I'll just install 5.10 on my second HDD.
Also, I noticed that I can at least see files on my 2 NTFS partitions, but I read that modifying them on some distros can corrupt the partition, does anybody know if is this true?
Edited by Pi rules, 23 October 2005 - 11:49 AM.
#6
Posted 23 October 2005 - 02:10 PM

in one word:Also, I noticed that I can at least see files on my 2 NTFS partitions, but I read that modifying them on some distros can corrupt the partition, does anybody know if is this true?
YES.
writing to a ntfs partition can corrupt the files so that they are not useable in Windows. I tried that when I was on Suse and I had to delete the entire program I was working on and had to re-install it.
HTH
#7
Posted 23 October 2005 - 02:17 PM

That's everything I can think of for now.
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