Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:35:48 -0500 From: Lou Picciano <LouPicciano@comcast.net> Message-id: <B89FFC44.39C4%LouPicciano@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Advice Installing SuSE 7.3 on SparcStation10 with External SCSI disk
Eivan,
As to your question re external hard drive installation of SuSE. I have not
done this myself, but I'm sure this is quite doable. More than the question
of 'boot-ability', people have trouble formatting their non-sun drives only
because of the 512k block requirement and 'Sun Disk Label' requirement,
which it sounds like you are beyond.
Others here - more experienced in this than I - will I'm sure help you with
this.
As to the Window Manager question: We have been using a very basic Sparc 10
video card successfully with SuSE, KDE2 and Gnome - though we don't use
Gnome at the moment. (if you give me a command to show which card
specifically we have, I can gladly report this to you).
There is one small 'gotcha', which has only come up for a very few of us on
the list. Check out emails on this list with subjects containing 'mouse
haywire' (!!) from Donald Knecht, Davin Carter and myself. Symptoms are
that the mouse behaves as if it's constantly being pressed over anything it
rolls over, among other things. A the moment, until we figure it out, this
has rendered my Window Manger unusable. But, since this doesn't seem to
affect most people, I think your risk of it is very low.
Lou
> Hi,
>
> Sparc10 has an internal 1GB disk which is too small to install the full SuSe
> package (3Gb). I'd like to install the full package on an external SCSI 9GB
> disk (IBM DDRS 39130). Is this possible because I'm having problems to
> installing under Yast2. I get fdisk problems despite labelling the external
> SCSI disk. What are the key partitioning parameters in such cases ?
>
> Are the latest versions of KDE and GNOME compatible with the standard
> graphics card of a SPARCstation 10. I have a feeling that only window maker
> will work.
>
> Thanks for your advice
>
> Eivan
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