On 18 Nov 2004, at 15:22, Brendan Kehoe wrote:
> On my blog at www.zen.org/~brendan/ I've got some of the details
> behind trying
> to get SuSE 9.2 Professional (sent by a friend) going on my laptop.
> The
> short of it is, the installation software seemed to create two
> partitions on
> the disk, one for the root partition and the other for /home. But
> after I
> had the system going, I realized that somehow the partition holding /
> was in
> fact not mounted---the larger partition apparently for /home did in
> fact have
> everything on it. That was the partition being used to boot.
>> I hadn't done anything odd, no weird choices, just telling it it's a
> New
> Installation. I figured I'll mess with it after I've got it going,
> having
> used SuSE 9.1 on it for a while.
>> Have any of you tried out 9.2 Professional and had it install without
> any
> hassle?
It's on my Inspiron and my main deskunder - new installation in both
cases, and It Just Worked (TM). It even worked with my manky Lucent
Bronze Turbo WiFi cards with a little effort. Previously for me getting
SuSE to work with WiFi cards was major effort.
Niall
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