i should be working (but i'm fixing my computer).

Those model numbers are getting weird. But anyway ...

I have yet to find a linux-installed computer that is as cost-effective to obtain as one with Vista on it. This means that linux must be installed before actually using the computer. But, there were some issues.

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I haven't identified any hardware that specifically doesn't work, so nothing to report of that nature.

I did, however, have a bit of trouble installing OpSu 11.1 -- the partitioner did (and did not) work.

First up, I tried to use the Vista re-partitioner because early-on I think there were issues if one repartitioned Vista with linux partitioners. But, I also was of the opinion this had been resolved, since I had repartitioned my Sony with the linux partitioner.

Anyway, I tried. Vista was going to give up, oh, 5 gigs of 250 gigs. How friendly.

So, I ran the normal OpSu 11.1 install. However, there was a problem and the user feedback was a bit unclear. (As it turned out, the Vista partition was resized and the new partitions created, but the OpSu installer could not mount the new partitions.) I had this problem previously in an upgrade, but I re-ran the OpSu network installer that time and it worked okay the second time around.

This DID NOT work with the new Toshiba. Although the re-size and new partitions had occurred, I could not get the new partitions to mount, so the install crashed at the partition stage. (It also crashed Vista, at least temporarily -- so I now had a non-functional computer.)

So, I pulled out my OpSu 11 CD and installed 11. Now, here was an odd mystery -- my external monitor and keyboard did not install correctly. I say it is an "odd mystery" as the precise same external hardware works in OpSu 11 on all of my other computers. But also, these things had been identified okay in the OpSu 11.1 install that did not install.

In any event, after awhile the OpSu 11 install was complete and then I ran the OpSu 11.1 installer in UPDATE mode. And so, after some hours of downloading software, the computer was ready to go and has been functioning happily ever since.

Daughter is happy.

(I should comment that she has been successfully using linux long enough that she is very Windows-adverse, despite it being the system used by most of her teachers and friends. The reason is, when she wants some new feature, she goes into the YAST2 software installer and retrieves what she needs. As opposed to the closed source model where first she has to do research to find (possibly) appropriate software, and then has to (get Dad to) buy it.)

Later update: 3d effects are not working though!

Thank you for reading and have a pleasant tomorrow.

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PS -- I should note that although I like using the network installer because it fires up fast, if I am going to do multiple installs it makes more sense to download the actual CD/DVD so as to only d/l the main software packages once rather than multiple times -- and it's also more useful if the network connection is down or something.

PPS -- This was odd. The install DID NOT start up the NTP server. Then, when I went into YAST2>Network Services>NTP, I got the "complicated" setup screens that I reported when I used the OpSu 11.1 BETA. Which is puzzling, because my other OpSu 11.1 install DID setup NTP -- and used the older, simplified NTP setup.

Maybe I am just getting confused. Perhaps the prior install I am referring to was an "update" and for some reason carried forward my older settings and the older interface. Maybe it is a difference between the 64 bit install and the 32 bit one. I'm puzzled, but it is not sufficiently important to me to figure out what caused the difference.