Comments on: Release Day – All Hell Breaks Loose

By: lee

lee — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:11:43 +0000

i am asuming that its windows as not sure any one in there right mind would install linux on fat32

By: lee

lee — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:10:29 +0000

Fat32 users

start
run
cmd
type convert X: /fs:ntfs
if it asks type in the Drive label
Press n then enter then y then enter (No to force dismount / yes for on reboot)

X: = the disk thats fat32 replace that with the disk letter that needs chageing (all sould be done), Do not Force dismount

By: colinlc

colinlc — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:00:56 +0000

9.0 gave me unsolvable problems with the DVD drive: read most, then said it couldn’t read. Forced to buy 9.1
9.1 no problem with DVD drive – but couldn’t manage the screen – many hours to find a manual solution.
10.1 screen problem fixed – but now no sound – hours to fix.
10.3 revised screen problem – during ‘upgrade’ it lost all settings – then informs me that “Desktop settings are not available at this time” Pardon??? Say that again???
Also, lost ability to auto-mount USB drives – no problem before!

Why is it that a system finally works and a new bug is added?
Like: reading DVD – change read mode – oops, can’t read it – MSG: Your fault!
Screen: installs fine – change mode – oops, can’t see – MSG: your fault!
10.3? Looks good!

By: eingmt

eingmt — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:00:11 +0000

first: awesome job, DL speed was as fast as never ever before! second: 10.3 still is flawed, especially the one-click-install.installing multi media stuff and simple programs works, but as soon as you try to install more critical things like hardware drivers you still have to compile the rpms yourself or reinstall it via yast after the one click install didn’t work correctly.

By: Michel Aaldering

Michel Aaldering — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:27:22 +0000

My first SuSE linux was version 6.1. What an incredible progress has been made looking at openSUSE 10.3. Also compared to 10.2 some fundamental improvements are made. Unfortunately also some serious problems in basic hardware recognition reappeared (many of these problems remind me of old suse versions years ago).

Highlights are:
– I am very happy with the fast boot!
– Also the new feature ” One click install” is great: adding multi-media support to openSUSE 10.3 is very easy now. Very good.
– The green theme looks very nice.

Lowlights are:
– X-windows installation (sax2) gave two serious problems:
. A 30 seconds black screen each time X-windows is started. Installing the NVIDIA driver solved the problem.
. An very old problem popped up: the mouse wheel didn’t work. Sax2 installed the wrong mouse type. Switching to USB-port and running sax2 again solved the problem.
– Simply switching off the PC automatic does not work. This problem (I think with ACPI) was introduced with version 10.0 or 10.1 (I forgot which one) and still isn’t solved. On the same hardware the old suse 9.3 has flawless ACPI support, so what is wrong in the 10.x versions?
– During installation two existing NTFS-partitions were assigned in the wrong sequence to the windows drive letter. I had to change this manually.

By: Benjamin Weber

Benjamin Weber — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:18:39 +0000

This is almost certainly https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332917

A curl bug, triggered by one of the mirror configurations, it’s only started happening within the last few hours.

You could work around it by adding mirrors manually instead of the download.opensuse.org… mirrors until there’s a fix available.

By: dec0de

dec0de — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:22:02 +0000

Installed 10.3 ontop of 10.2 on two HP TC-4400. The upgrade worked, but got some “YaST got signal 11 at YCP file bla bla bla” when wanting to put in the standard 10.3 OSS and NON-OSS repositories. Installed one of the machines from scratch, but still got the same when choosing these repositories from the list. using Zypper creates a segmentation fault, and also
YaST. have gone back to 10.2 on one of the machines and awaits a solution for the other.

Conlusion, the installation works great both upgrade and fresh installation, but forget about putting in more repositories…

By: SPECIAL

SPECIAL — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:10:51 +0000

Why,why released package so big?!
I can’t save it into my fat32 system disk.
Because my PC have no CD/DVD driver,so I must install openSUSE 10.3 form harddisk.-_-||

By: lxtwin

lxtwin — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:21:04 +0000

I was hoping for something good but was a little worried when it went GA only after seeing one RC. My fears came true the 64 bit version is pants, I have a dual 2.66GHz Clovertown with 8GB of memory and it is slower than my old T41 laptop. SLES10sp1 or SUSE 10.2 is great on there but OpenSuse 10.3 is slow and hangs when transferring a large amount of data over the network. I have just installed it on my home PC 4GB RAM, QX6800 and broadcom network cards. This is the same, slow and hangs. However the 32bit version is fine.

Sorry Guys it is not looking good for the 64bit version.

By: eddie javier

eddie javier — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:29:01 +0000

Hello,

I had the same problem. Burned the GNOME iso several times and won’t install properly. I’ve checked and re-checked the MD5 sum and everything checks out.

What I did was burn the mini iso, boot that and let the installer load the iso located on a separate VFAT partition. Perfect! I’ve replaced my Ubuntu syste, with openSUSE. It rocks!

Yast2 and zypper needs a little getting used to (coming from Ubuntu).

Mabuhay openSUSE!