Preliminary partitioning using PartitionMagic 8.0

• install PM from CD
• disable Norton Antivirus
• run PM from disk
  • delete partition D:
  • resize partition C: new size 11000 MB
  • new partition: primary partition, FAT 32, size 20000 MB
  • delete extended partition
  • new partition: logical partition, ext3

  • apply pending actions --> accept system restart

• don't touch the system during system restart and the following partition resizing

Installing Suse 9.3

Partitioning

• Delete /dev/hda5
• Create partition: /, 10 GB, reiser
• Create partition: /other, 10 GB, reiser
• Create partition: swap, 4 GB, swap
• Create partition: /home, reiser

Setup during installation

• configure for CUPS client, using irprint1 as CUPS server
• enable Bluetooth
• set graphics device
  • set monitor to "LCD 1680x1050"
  • set graphics card to "VESA Vesa-BIOS Graphics"
  • set color and resolution to 24 bit and 1680x1050

Bluetooth mouse

• Press frontside "blue" button"
• using root account execute command
  • hciconfig iscan
• With the following boots pressing the frontside button is enough

System clock

Is running aprox. twice as fast as my watch ???!!!???

Booting with the "noapic" options corrects the clock but then the Bluetooth controller is not working anymore. Other boot options:

• no_timer_check : doesn't change anything
• disableapic : doesn't boot anymore
• nolapic : doesn't boot anymore
• noapictimer : doesn't boot anymore

Hoped the following kernel security update will fix the problem, but it looks like the kernel version 2.6.11 has a general problem with this processor and with this chip set.

Installing YOU patches

• select all security updates
• select Multimeda Option Pack 1-4
• reboot
• using yast2 select following packages (in addition accept to resolve dependencies from previous update)
  • kernel-source
  • kernel-syms
  • gcc
  • gcc-c++
  • gcc-info
  • gcc-java
  • gcc-locale
  • automake
  • bison
  • Xdialog
• start YOU again
  • accept kernel update
• reboot