[sles-beta] few things to note after my first install

[Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au]

I might add opensuse 12.3 beta installed just fine on the same HP N40L from a USB stick.

Cheers,

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [mailto:sles-beta-
> bounces at lists.suse.com] On Behalf Of Joe Doupnik
> Sent: Friday, 22 February 2013 4:33 AM
> To: sles-beta at lists.suse.com
> Subject: Re: [sles-beta] few things to note after my first install
> 
> On 21/02/2013 18:11, Mike Marion wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:00:26AM +0000, Greg.Lehmann at csiro.au
> wrote:
> >
> >> 1.       No ability to install from USB flash drive - optical media
> is a bit
> >> old hat - hopefully this will be an option for SLES 12
> > A lot of us probably think that installing off media vs a network
> (usually via
> > PXE) is old hat. :P
>      Yes yes, but that does not solve the problem at hand.
>      There are likely BIOS settings which can be used to solve it. A
> person at my place had this trouble with a new Dell box plus a minor
> brand X Linux distribution. BIOS tinkering did not help, much.
> Retreating to an earlier distribution did the trick. Thus nuances,
> particularly with today's hardware, are worth exploring and reporting
> to
> the group. It's part of our <volunteer> job description, to detect
> problems before the final customer does.
>      Joe D.
> 
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