[mdlug] openSUSE 10.3 Flash and Install Oddities

[Peter Bart]

Happy Holidays Everyone,
	A few notes on the install of openSUSE 10.3 on two laptops as I
struggle a little. I've found that the install with online repositories
enabled requires a root partition of over 1Gig. At the point in the
install where the update occurs is where root becomes overloaded. I
don't know if that's my problem trying to get the right screen
resolution on a 1440x900 17" display, but we'll see. This comes out of
me not using the install recommended three partitions. The reason I
didn't use that, is with that scheme on an IBM T22 (with a small(ish)
hard drive) flash only will play for the first few seconds. Since it
plays fine on my T30, and the only difference besides hardware was the
partitioning; I tried my partitioning scheme. That is roughly as follows
with swap being twice the amount of ram. That comes from hearing suspend
may need that to work? Comments??

plumber:~ # df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1            1012M  211M  750M  22% /
udev                  506M   88K  506M   1% /dev
/dev/sda2              54M   27M   24M  53% /boot
/dev/sda9              26G   14G   11G  58% /home
/dev/sda8             2.5G  137M  2.3G   6% /opt
/dev/sda7            1012M  155M  806M  17% /tmp
/dev/sda3             5.0G  3.5G  1.3G  75% /usr
/dev/sda6            1012M  423M  538M  45% /var
   
Besides the install complaining of running out of space at the online
update stage there seemed to be no ill effects for the T22. df -h
reports about 1/3 of the 1Gig root partition is used once the install
was done on the T22. And flash works!?! I'm having a little harder time
with a Toshiba P205-S6347, I can't seem to get part of the display in
the right resolution. The desktop is correct but the Gnome panels
display in the middle of the screen. Also I'm using the 64bit version of
openSUSE 10.3. Interestingly enough the screen displays correctly using
the installers suggested partitioning but flash doesn't work? I hope
this helps someone, even idiots as I can stumble across a solution from
time to time!

Best Regards,
-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net