“After a long, slow download from impacted servers, I’ve got the
new SUSE 10 running.“The install went well, except that it wouldn’t boot from the
hard disk! That’s because I had my machine’s BIOS
drive-configuration for my SATA drives set to ‘PATA legacy’ on the
secondary channel… which turned the CD-ROM into something from
the black lagoon as far as SUSE was concerned. It would boot from
the Install CD, but not from the hard disk after installation.
Changing the BIOS did the trick (it had been set to ‘legacy,’
because when I first got the machine two years ago, I installed
Slackware 9.1 with a 2.4 kernel without SATA compatibility…)”
“After my last Suse Linux Professional experience I was looking
forward to trying out the next major release since 9.3 hit the
shelves. Interestingly Novell is now very kindly offering Suse
Linux 10 for free (OSS) from the following mirrors on opensuse.org,
so if you have access to broadband you can quickly download the 5
CD’s and test Suse Linux OSS 10 yourself. Be aware that by giving
it to you for free, that you won’t get any support from Novell, but
hey, if you are geeky enough to install Suse Linux, then support
really shouldn’t be an issue to you.“If you do however require support, and like hands on
documentation, then pull out your wallet and purchase a boxed set
from Novell, that would surely make them happy :), in addition,
you’ll get extended support for different pc hardware architectures
so for some that may be the only route to take (X86 64-bit
systems). In addition to the support added to the retail version,
you’ll get a lot of extra packages included if you buy the retail
box…”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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