On 11/1/2011 7:22 AM, dc wrote: > Thanks for replying Roy. Maybe I should try a 64 bit install? > > I have just rerun the SuSE install > sda1 -- 2 GB swap > sda2 -- 20 GB root (Ext4) > sda3 -- 457 GB home (Ext4) > > all were formatted successfully. The _graphical_ install completes about > halfway and then we get the first error message from Yast2: >
If you are trying to install a *nix OS on brand-new, bleeding edge hardware, you might run into the reality that *nix distributions have to develop their own hardware drivers, so there is usually a time lag, so that, for example, if your brand new Windows machine has an equally brand new mainboard, for which no *nix developer has yet got around to writing drivers for. Eventually, if the mainboard (in this example... could be any piece of hardware in the computer) is decent enough to attract a developer to want to use it (remember, in many cases, no one is paying him/her to do this work), then the developer will write the drivers, and release them for free use to the *nix community. When choosing hardware for a *nix build, I usually do some googling, and try to choose hardware that has drivers already written for it. In most cases, this means hardware that is a couple years old. This is not a bad thing, because after a couple years, one can often find revision 2 or 3 hardware for sale, which has all the initial bug-fixes taken care of, and also, it is cheaper than the bleeding edge stuff, because it is no longer 'bleeding edge'. :) -- http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ . ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
