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installling suse linux 6.2 trouble

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by jamninlurv

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hi im having trouble with my installation of suse linux 6.2....
I have a acer travelmate 212txv laptop , it has 10gb hdd,floppy drive,cyber blade3d video card,ali audio accelerator, matshita dvd drive,a modem(56k)....i now i wont have sound but everytime i install it evrything goes fine then when it reboots and asks for me to change/add password that goes fine then it hangs on the next step where it trys to initialise the pcmcia slots what do i do? the modules are not supplied on this cdrom sowhat do i do do i have to get a newer version of linux or what????????? i got this version with the "suse linux for dummies" book ......can some one please help me?

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by shanghai sam

SuSe is a fine distro, but it is huge.
If you have the money get the newest distro.
The full priced one. The documentation they
provide is (the last one I got) well worth
the money. The professional version had really
in depth docs. with explanations of what files
were important, what they do, and where they are.
6.2 won't have the drivers for half of your hardware, the full pcmcia support hadn't evolved
yet. They are known to have more stuff than
anybody else. But. Unless you're atypical, you
won't use 10% of it. Go on the internet and explore the supported hardware sites and discover
all of the distros and try to find out what you
need. Evaluation copies are often free at your
local LUG (Linux User Group)[Sort of like AA in
reverse--they want you to use.]
Evaluation copies are a stripped-down
version, they have all of the drivers and stuff
but no source code (takes too much room) and
no shareware or propriatary stuff.

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