I have come to the conclusion that Novell are employing monkeys ... real ones, 'cos I'm damn sure no human was capable of putting together such an abomination of an Operating System as Suse 10.1

Sorry dear, but even for FREE I want something that works ... it seems I was one of the lucky ones, in that, my install went without too much problem, well no problems really, just took an hour and some to finish, but hey, it's free right.

Well, bugger off and go and do it again, ... you have a bloody cheek issuing this heap of crap and calling it finished, more like chinese cracker soup, err, sorry, no disrespect to our far eastern allies.

I have given up trying to "fix" it ... I'm not a Linux user, I use Linux, yes there is a difference.


Wonder what Maddrivel is like these days. Think I'll try that for a laugh.

That bad? This is why I like MS

Have you tried Gentoo or any of the other distros?

You been away toooo long ... I have about 25 Distro's ... Gentoo ain't one of them.

Ian, I ain't forking out another £55 for XP ... mind you, I do have DOS6.2, WfW3.11, Win95/98/98SE & ME ... but then MS no longer supports them. oh and Win2000, but I never did like that one.


Naw, I'm downloading Mandriva 2006 ... we'll have a shout and scream at them today.

How many PCs have you got now Mucks? Tried Mandrake about 3 years ago (after a recommendation from Floppy? not sure) and liked it, but that was a much older version.

Good Luck

LoL ... only two.

This one, and the Old Girl over there ....... >

Hmm, I downloaded the DVD version of Suse 10.1 overnight, I'll be installing it soon.

I've only read mostly good reports about it, although there were a few problems, apparently.

I've tried Mandriva 2006, it's Ok, but I MUCH preferred Suse V10.0. Why not go back to V10.0 for now until they've ironed the bugs out?

I'll let you know how I get on with my 10.1 install, but I haven't even checked the md5sum yet. I'll keep you posted

And calm down, you'll busta bloodvessel

Maddrivil didn't last 30mins before I was reformating once again ... poor HD don't know whether it's comming or going.

So, we, me myself & I, tried once more with 10.1 ... got the little bugger on the hop this time, it is up-n-running, and the way I want it ... for now.

I'll look into all the other stuff, like nVidia drivers, later.


... now where did I leave that Bonkit program?

Suse 10.1 seemed to have worked ok for me,although i found it sluggish compared to my slackware install,but to be fair i do have a custom compiled kernel in slackware..If you havent already tried pclos Muckshifter ..you should give it a go..i found it to be the next best thing to slackware..or you could try slackware

Yep, I have tried PCLos ... very aptly named to, 'cos it was a dead Loss ... it would not install.

I hear Slackware requires a 6 year degree in Linux ... I don't think I'll live that long.

Nup, I'm not a Linux user ... I use Linux.


I am getting rather good at 'fixing' Suse though.

All fixed ... running as sweet as a nut.