Installed 11.2 Final via x86_64 -NET installer from my own rsynced repository today on my test machine using USB key to boot the -NET installer (thus it’s a little different than the actual install).
The old test box encompasses an Asus A8N-SLI SE+ mobo, AMD X2/4800 chugging along at 2.2GHz + , 4GB of memory, 2x1TB normal + 2x500GB in Stripe - all Seagate 7200.10’s, a pair of nVidia 8800GT 512MB’s and an Creative X-Fi bulk to bring the noise.
The install was pretty straightforward as always, since the machine is clean and has no dual boot setup or other nigglies, it was merely a case of hitting next and remove the default suggestion of having /home, which I never do.
Things I’ve spotted so far;
X-Fi wasn’t detected on install, neither did it configure properly - solution? Reboot after the system was setup, it was detected and auto-configured properly on next reboot without interaction. shrug
KDE still doesn’t enable suxpixel hinting + smoothing by default -> fonts looks downright awful and give a really bad impressive of the default install.
Windows decoration by default not to my liking, back to Plastik for me!
Bootsplash did not work at all, I attribute this to using text mode installer, I’ll have to stab it a bit later when I have time.
Also, KDE keyboard layout doesn’t seem to do anything - I won’t declare it as fubar yet, I’ll investigate a bit.
Other than that this was, by far, the smoothest openSuSE install of all time and KDE4 feels quite snappy, especially with the latest nVidia binary installer (the nVidia modules are not up so 1-clicker doesn’t work).
Is final available already? I’m currently running RC2.
I agree. That’s usually the first thing I change because I really can’t stand it. Plastik is nice, but I found one that I like even better. It’s called Crystal, but you have to install it from the KDE Community repository.
My brother recently bought a new laptop, and he wanted me to put a Linux distribution on it. He told me that he prefers one of the “newbie” distros over openSUSE. After trying a couple of other KDE distros, I ended up putting openSUSE 11.2 on it. All of the hardware was detected and configured out of the box, and everything works great. Also, I didn’t realize that openSUSE was one of few mainstream distros that offers a 64 bit version for free.
Basically, I was looking for a newbie friendly mainstream distro that is either KDE based or offers a good KDE implementation. That narrows it down quite a bit. PCLinuxOS does not offer a 64 bit version at all. Mepis is too old (I think they’re still stuck on KDE3). Debian is not what one would call newbie friendly. Mandriva charges for their 64 bit version (which explains why PCLinuxOS does not have any plans to make a 64 bit version). Kubuntu fits the above criteria, but it did not like the hardware like openSUSE did. Mint lags behind Ubuntu and their KDE version lags even further behind. Fedora is an option, but their latest release is about a week out yet. This new laptop needs the 2.6.31 kernel for everything to work.
Chrysantine wrote:
> Installed 11.2 Final via x86_64 -NET installer from my own rsynced
> repository today on my test machine using USB key to boot the -NET
> installer
I’ve not been able to make the netinstall image boot from a USB stick.
The live image boots just fine so there is obviously something very
different in the images.
Have you got some instructions to make a USB netinstall medium?
Vahis
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9:10pm up 10 days 2:11, 11 users, load average: 0.41, 0.37, 0.26
I did it the lame way and used the Unetbootin (latest 3.77) and ISO option to write it on a fresh USB stick formatted as FAT32.
However this comes with some problems, one of them being that it’ll dump you to text installer in which you’ll have to manually tell it to start the installation from d.o.o/repo/oss/ (or local repository of your choice) and you’ll end up with an installation that has no bootsplash.
Apparently the -NET image does not support USB booting no matter how you hack it, at least I haven’t been able to find a way to do.
Chrysantine wrote:
> Vahis;2062497 Wrote:
>> Have you got some instructions to make a USB netinstall medium?
> I did it the lame way and used the Unetbootin (latest 3.77) and ISO
> option to write it on a fresh USB stick formatted as FAT32.
>
> However this comes with some problems, one of them being that it’ll
> dump you to text installer in which you’ll have to manually tell it to
> start the installation from d.o.o/repo/oss/ (or local repository of your
> choice) and you’ll end up with an installation that has no bootsplash.
>
> Apparently the -NET image does not support USB booting no matter how
> you hack it, at least I haven’t been able to find a way to do.
>
>
OK. That makes 2 of us then.
Hope someone else’s got it working somehow
Vahis
“Sunrise 8:06am (EET), sunset 4:01pm (EET) at Espoo, Finland (7:55 hours
daylight)” http://waxborg.servepics.com
Linux 2.6.25.20-0.5-default #1 SMP 2009-08-14 01:48:11 +0200 x86_64
9:53pm up 10 days 2:54, 11 users, load average: 0.57, 0.58, 0.50
Upgraded from RC2 (32bit) with zypper dup yesterday, and it’s a relatively small upgrade, no problems with upgrade process - that must be your fault :). The update repo works as this morning it offered the pullin package for MS core fonts. Still using packman’s factory repo, but no problems with audio etc.
Post upgrade, the only issue so far was disapperaing KDE4 buttons in the title bar of its windows. That was fixed by deleting the hidden .kde4 file in /home, while booting from another system and mounting it there, and reconfiguring KDE.
Did a net install last night on a newly bought Toshiba laptop, the install iso was dated 8/11 and all the repos are there so I assume it’s GM what I’ve got now (did an upgrade from the repos this morning). Only problems encountered were some fiddling with the Intel video resolution before it worked, and with Knetwork Manager: it saw the wireless network but try as I might would not connect me to the web. Switched to ifup in YaST and everything’s hunkydory now.
Very impressed, beats the Vista dualbooted on same machine into a cocked hat. Compare boot-up on both as fresh installations: Vista just under two minutes (I kid you not!), 11.2 40 seconds. Each measured from Grub choice to workable system, no logins.
Chrysantine, glad to hear yours went pretty smooth. I installed 11.2 RC2 and ran a zipper dup after pointing to the new local repositories and did the upgrade. I hate waiting. lol!
I had not run Linux for about a year and hearing so many people complaining about KDE4.X, I broke down and installed Gnome. Yes. Hell has frozen over. I did install KDE as well, but so far, I have not booted into KDE. I don’t know how long I will stick with Gnome, but it appears to be rock solid and very fast. It’s just not as flashy.
Running on a Toshiba L355D-S7815 and everything that I have checked so far is working. I did do a BIOS upgrade on the notebook a couple of weeks ago before installing Windows7 64bit, so that probably has something to do with it.
