Re: [tlug] SuSE CD problem (was SuSE 8.0 copies at TLUG meeting)

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

Nguyen Hung Takeshi (vuhung@example.com) wrote:

> > What does it say in /var/log/y2log?
> 
> I could not check as when error msg is displayed, the only option is click
> cancel and reboot...

If you're feeling really ambitious, you could try it again in text
install mode.  This gets you the ncurses-based installer, and you can
toggle consoles with alt-<F1/F2/F3/F4) and should be able to use the
shell to view the contents of /var/log/y2log.

But since no one else has (so far) reported this, it might be that you
just got a bad CD 1.  

I've dabbled a bit in SuSE 8 now, and while it's pretty good, my 
first impressions are:

1) Yast2 is SLOW (running on a BP6 with two Celeron 300As clocked to 450)
2) That green color scheme has to go :-)
3) Two many scripts for firewalling and the graphical firewall config
   tool is not nearly fine-grained enough (being able to specify port
   22 open is too coarse; the user should be able to specify from which
   addresses port 22 connections will be accepted).  Mandrake is also guilty
   of this sin, and it's one of the reasons I dumped Mandrake.
   Red Hat's approach to this is best; they use lokkit to 
   generate /etc/sysconfig/ipchains, and that is an ASCII file containing
   rules for ipchains.  Lokkit doesn't give a fine-grained approach
   either, but you can whip out your favorite editor and modify that
   file directly.

Jonathan