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by **Mandrake** » Fri 16 Jan, 2004 8:12 am

Having my new fast computer perfectly setup running XP Pro, it's time to put the 10gb of hard disk space set aside for Linux to good use . . . ! Since the only distro I have is Redhat 9, which is old and doesn't support my video card properly, I'm going to get a new one off ebay.

My question is which one to get . . . ?

The auctions on Ebay that I am looking at are:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3071655296&category=11227
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3071655022&category=11227
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3070839157&category=11227

Thanks!

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by **DJGM** » Fri 16 Jan, 2004 11:08 am

My recommendation . . . go for the third one . . . SUSE Linux 9.0 Pro at a "Buy It Now" price of AUS$7.95 . . .

I've purchased two copies of SUSE Linux 9.0 Pro from sellers on eBay.co.uk, one on a DVD-R, the
other on a set of 5 CD-R discs. I've installed the distro from the DVD-R discs on to my main PC.

The other copy of SUSE 9.0 on the CD-R discs will be going on my secondary PC, and kept also
for installing on someone else's PC, upon which I've previous installed the earlier SuSE distros
over the last 2 years - first SuSE Linux 7.1, followed by 8.1 Personal. then 8.2 Pro.

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by **Edward** » Fri 16 Jan, 2004 8:00 pm

Another vote for SuSE 9.0.

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by **Mandrake** » Fri 16 Jan, 2004 8:09 pm

I bought a copy of SuSE Linux 9 about half an hour ago

Very good, I'll have it fairly soon - then I can escape from being trapped in Windows at all times.

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by **DJGM** » Fri 16 Jan, 2004 9:30 pm

Congratulations on purchasing a top notch Linux distribution.

Now, might I interest you in the SUSE Linux Wine Rack, perchance?

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by **Mandrake** » Fri 16 Jan, 2004 11:50 pm

Novell should offer you a job as a SuSE Linux salesman DJGM :wink:

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by **DJGM** » Fri 16 Jan, 2004 11:59 pm

That reminds me, I really must update my CV/Resume . . . !

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by **Edward** » Sat 17 Jan, 2004 11:51 am

If either of you successfully install it along with XP on a system, please let me know how the installation went.

When I acquired the Western Digital hard drive and reinstalled 98 on it (before I bought the XP upgrade), the WD software created one partition first, and although I am not sure what the WD software did exactly, 98 installed fine, but SuSE was not able to repartition the hard drive and install itself afterwards.

Where the XP installation deleted that original FAT32 partition and reformatted/repartitioned using NTFS, I do not know if this makes a difference, as I have not installed it on the drive since the XP upgrade.

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by **Mandrake** » Sat 17 Jan, 2004 5:37 pm

I'll tell you if I get it to work, I plan on dual booting with XP Pro and SuSE 9 using LILO.

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by **Mandrake** » Fri 30 Jan, 2004 9:22 am

I have my copy of SuSE Linux 9 Pro! Very good OS indeed, a little harder to install than Redhat 9, but the OS itself is much better, a great product! :-)

Dual booting with XP and 2k flawlessly.

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by **DJGM** » Fri 30 Jan, 2004 12:35 pm

Mandrake wrote:I'll tell you if I get it to work, I plan on dual booting with XP Pro and SuSE 9 using LILO.

IIRC, the default bootloader in SUSE Linux since v8.0, has been GRUB. How come you're using LILO?

Eitherway, at least SUSE Linux 9.0 is working well for you on your dual boot machine, which is good
to hear. Maybe we should consider making SUSE Linux the officially recommended Linux distribution,
especially seeing as it seems to be becoming very much the distro of choice for most of us here.

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by **Mandrake** » Fri 30 Jan, 2004 6:41 pm

Redhat had been configured with LILO, but SuSE installed GRUB and set that up, so I'll not complain at that.

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