I have created some Web Pages concerning the Installation and other stuff on the various versions of SuSE 6.2 thru openSuSE 11.3. Some of it good and, unfortunately, some of it bad. However, I have created an Install/Update scenario, with pics, that might be of use to some. Spent some time in creating it and thought that I would share it. ‘oldcpu’ if you could, and would, take a look at it and tell me what else might be needed to make it better … or not.
Thanks,
Chuck
Web Site: SuSE 11.3
Such guides are typically very useful.
When it comes to partitioning and you say ‘not needed for update’, I recommend caution there as that term is used rather loosely by many users (but used accurately by you), and what you correctly note wrt update (with the correct use of update) could be confused by someone else who is doing a clean install of 11.3 (replacing 11.2) and they may consider that an ‘update’ even though technically it is not. … Still, I confess I don’t know a better way to describe it, other than to note caution is needed.
Anyway, your efforts are appreciated.
Ok. I have made some changes. Please check if they are proper. Thanks.
And, by the way, on another subject… it seems that VMware can not find the kernel header files in this Public Release. I had been having problems with the Betas -but- RC2 worked. Unfortunately, I didn’t do a Full Clean Install of the Final, only an Update and I was lulled into thinking that the Final was as good as RC2. After reading of others with problems I set about to prove that it was not a problem. Unfortunately, all I was able to prove is … that it is a problem. Do you have any input on this???
In truth, I know too much to be a good assessor here. You really need someone who knows less. I take too much for granted given my experience.
I have never used vmware in my life.
chucktr wrote:
> I have created some Web Pages concerning the Installation and other
> stuff on the various versions of SuSE 6.2 thru openSuSE 11.3
> (http://www.trcompu.com/Computers/LinNotes/NewSuSE-11-3.html)
there was a system produced by a company in Germany which was named
S.u.S.E. which changed to SuSE but then was purchased by a USA company
and is now is openSUSE…
today, there is no system named SuSE, however there is one named “SUSE
Enterprise Linux Desktop” (SLED) and another named “SUSE Enterprise
Linux Server” (SLES)…
and some folks talk about SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop version 11 SP
2 by using the short hand of SUSE 11.2, or SuSE 11.2, or SLED
11.2…so, there is some level of confusion about exactly what you are
using, unless you are specific…
ok, so i know it is not a big deal (if you don’t want to be specific,
or if you want to be confusing)…and i also know it is not a big deal
to correct…as far as i can see you could open your html file in
(say) kwrite and search replace “SuSE” with “openSUSE” in i’d guess
one minute or so?
or, you could probably use sed to correct the entire series of html
files, site wide in the same time (plus whatever time it take to
figure out the magic incantation needed to tell sed what to do…)
and then you wouldn’t need this part “Another one of my fabulous
write-ups on installing SuSE, now known as openSuSE. In these notes, I
change between ‘openSuSE’ and ‘SuSE’. Two reasons: SuSE is less typing
and I like the sound of it. (Like Chuck instead of Charles.)”
think about it Chuck, after all what is in a name anyway, CHarlEs
taYLoR? 
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
Hmmmm, I apologize to any and all that I have offended or confused in the name usages. I have followed SuSE from 1999 through their Purchase by Novell in November of 2003.
The name change, to openSuSE, happened at version 10.0 in September of 2005. Prior to that it was still known as SuSE.
The SUSE Linux distribution was originally a German translation of Slackware Linux. In mid-1992, Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was founded by Peter MacDonald, and was the first comprehensive distribution to contain elements such as X and TCP/IP.
As stated in my Web Pages, I have been using SuSE since version 6.2. So I am a little familiar with it. I realize that some do not like nick names. Like some guys named James do not like to be called Jim.
Once again I apologize to those that I have offended and to those that I might possibly offend in the future. Cause I’m old and hard to change…
I have been using SuSE since version 7. I was unable to update to 11.3 from 11.2, and even with a clean install, 11.3 malfunctioned with several packages. I have reinstalled 11.2 and everything is back working
chucktr wrote:
> The name change, to openSuSE, happened at version 10.0 in September of
> 2005.
no Charles, S.u.S.E. Linux changed to SuSE Linux and then to SUSE
Linux and then to openSUSE…there is no openSuSE today and there has
never been one…
check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opensuse
and, it is not offending me any more than any other misspelling does…
if you don’t to change it is ok with me, there are millions of
misspelled and incorrectly capitalized words and trademarks across the
web…
i just assumed you might wanna know…
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
Hee hee …
This is a funny thread!
All I know is that SuSE was a much better product than SUSE, openSUSE, or anything else cursed by the Novell death grip … anyone remember SVR4.2 (a.k.a. Unixware ) …
I’m just surprised a semi-viable /suse/i product of any kind has survived with Novell this long.
I guess M$ closed suSe Services for Linux is just around the corner.
nakota,
I am curious. What didn’t work and what were the symptoms??
Chuck