[Wolves] Linux on an old PC

[Peter Cannon]

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 10:21, Kevanf1 wrote:


> What I'm puzzled by is the fact that he is actually 
> trying to get it running purely as a text/command line interface.

Sounds sensible to me given the low spec of the machine.
Actually most servers in the Linux community are purely text based.
(Linux gods don't need pretty pictures :-P )

> He is not bothered about setting it up with memory hogging graphical
> interfaces, not even a lite one like ICE.  To be honest I fell that it
> is perhpas not the CPU or memory but something else not meshing
> correctly with the SuSE installation.  He's managed to get other
> distro's up and running with GUI's like KDE so it will run with a GUI.
>
> Puzzling, very puzzling.

I'm puzzled too? in your second paragraph your saying he doesn't want GUI then 
in the last paragraph I read it that he does, which is it me old China?

As you know Suse has a text mode install, my best advice (based on a little 
experience) is just get the base system on, as little as possible, then build 
it up.

I cant give you a reason why but I've found if you try and stick all the 
packages on during the install it falls over.

I had the same experience at the weekend my daughter Hannah wanted Linux on a 
Toshiba 4090CDS laptop (She likes the games) every Distro I tried fell over 
all the disks are good I've used them loads of times but they refused to load 
at about 80% .

I did a minimal install of Mandrake and everything was fine I just added 
packages one at a time and all was well. Stupid I know but then so are 
computers ;-) 

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Regards,
Peter Cannon.
peter at cannon-linux.co.uk
Fedora Core 3 & Suse Pro 9.2

"There is every excuse for not knowing
there is no excuse for not asking"
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