[ltp] 7.3 Install Issues

[Ron Joffe]

I recently installed 7.3 Pro on my Thinkpad T20 (Model 2647-95U)

I installed from the DVD which I must say is one nice way to install. All of 
my past installs have been trhough ftp, so this was a really nice change.

So here is the list of issues which I encountered. 

My first biggest issue was resolution of my external monitor. Yast2 was not 
able to correclt detect neither my video card nor monitor correctly. I was 
stuck with 1024x768@60hz. Using Sax2 I was able to configure everything 
manually so that I had all of the correct resoluttions, etc. I also had to 
manually install the Thinkpad's pointer.

Next I had to add the sound card manually. This also was not detect in the 
inital install, but installed correctly in Yast2. Note I had to set the 
thinkpad option to 1 in the advanced options page.

Network was the next issue. Maybe I expected to much, but after my earlier 
Yast1 installs (SuSE 7.2) I expected to be asked something about my network 
setup. Yast2 did not ask me anything about that. It did correctly set up the 
card, but I had to go in and manually set up dhcp. 

Yast2 also didn't ask me anything about inetd which I had to manually change 
in rc.config. I also chose to install Samba, but had to again manually set up 
the samba startup in rc.config.

These were all relatively easy issues to handle. However I guess I expected 
these things to have been taken care by the installer. I really liked the 
overall look and feel of the installer. The folks at SuSE did a really nice 
job.

Ron



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