Re: SusE 8.2 on Sony Vaio

On 31 Jul 2003 at 13:00, Jonathan C. Sitte wrote:

> Quoting "[email protected]" <[email protected]>:
> 
> > Sorry if the thechnical content of this mail is below standard. 
Can
> > anyone tell me why my sony pcg-FR215M hangs when trying to 
install
> > suse 8.2 linux distribution...(it seems to be hanging on 
YaST...)I
 ... 
> I have not used that particular laptop but I can tell you that if 
you
> want to have a better experience with linux as a beginner I suggest
> using RedHat as my first choice or Mandrake as my second. 

This suggestion generally falls under the category of UN-HELPFULL and
is generally frowned upon on this list.

SuSE is what he has, and SuSE is what he wants to run.  

If your Ford won't start you would be a little put out if the best 
advice anyone had to offer was to go get a Chevy.  

Further, your assertions are simply not true for the following 
reasons:

1)Both Mandrake and RedHat OFTEN require kernel compiles to get
   ACPI running, SuSE 8.x does not.  SuSE out of the box generally
   figures out Sony laptops quite nicely, especially from 8.1 on.


2) He already told you that he had no net connection for that laptop
    so downloading all of RedHat or Mandrake is going to be a 
problem.

3) If you have no info specific to the problem, its best not to post 
at
    all, because all you do is add to the chatter while supplying no
    usefull information.

To maherpaul:

Shift to console 10 (ctrl-F10) just before you get to the place
where it hangs, and watch what its doing to see is you can
see what was running just before the lockup.


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