From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fox Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 23:18:28 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Basic Advice Needed Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 06:17:01PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > If you really mean SuSE 7.1 then it must be a very early test release so > it is no wonder that it is not stable. We never made a real ia64 release > based on SuSE 7.1. ISOs of our SuSE 7.2/ia64 release are available from > our ftp server. I think it was 7.2. Thanks for keeping me honest. I shouldn't malign SuSE, because, as the seller just told me over the phone, it works the best of any he has tried. It installs and is usable, it just crashes fairly often. :) Apparently it doesn't crash when memory is reduced to 1 GB, not 2 GB as I earlier said. Other distributions he recently tried TurboLinux - wouldn't boot off of the CD Caldera - installed great and was usable, but on restart had a kernel panic He's not willing to fork over the $495 to RedHat, and I just convinced him to try Debian. If that works we are in business. Well I am in business to spend the rest of my life configuring X-Windows, but progress is progress. As someone pointed out, the network and SCSI adapters may be causing problems. It has an Adaptec Ultra160 dual channel SCSI card for example, which definitely seems nonstandard. -- ------------------------ Jeremy T. Fox jerfox@stanford.edu