SuSE 8.2

- Boot woth SuSE 8.2 DVD1
- F2 -> "Text Mode" (this is done because of our GeForce4 Ti 4200 graphics card)
- Installation
- Language Selection - choose - Uebernehmen (accept)
- Update of existing system - OK
- Choose partition with 'old Linux'; in our case /dev/hda6 - Weiter (continue)
- No backup - Weiter (continue)
- Weiter (continue)
- Weiter (continue)
- Ja/Yes (Pakete überarbeiten)
- Delete Xfree86 4.X driver, NVIDIA_GLX, and NVIDIA_kernel
- Lösen (resolve)
- OK
- OK
- Weiter (continue)
- Ja/Yes (start)
- ... wait for about 20 minutes...
- [OK]
- F2 -> "Text Mode"
- Boot from Harddisk
- Cntl/Alt/F1
- Login as root (note, US-Keyboard is active, so e.g. '$' is 'shift-4', etc.)
- cd /tmp (where '/' is '-')
- sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run 
  (or the older NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run, which works as well)
  (-->you have to download this or a newer file from www.nvidia.com for Linux)
-  -> 
- OK
- Remove DVD1 from DVD-reader/writer 
- shutdown -r 0
- Login as regular user
- On the lower right-side you will see a symbol with a '!' - Click on it
- YOU (YaST Online Update is started)
- Ja/Yes -> start YOU
- enter root-password
- Weiter (continue) - Accept
- Click on the 'blue house icon' on the lower left-side of the bottom
- Click on Directory 'Desktop'
- Move/Copy the partion- and floppy-icons from the desktop into this directory
- Beenden / end
- activate XOSview (K-Symbol on the lower left-side - System - Info - XOSview)
- Logout and Login again
- Choose symbols for 'unmounted' icons (right-click on the symbols, etc.)
- Clean up the symbols/icons on your desktop
- MPlayer & DVD
  - Search in SuSE Support Database for "MPlayer DVD"
  - Search with Google "multifunktionaler MPlayer"
  - On the packman-website first download & install the 8 needed RPMs
    --> do this with Konqueror: click on RPM-Filename and after the download
        click on "Installiere Paket mit YaST"
  - rpm -e MPlayer-0.90rc4-25   (remove the Mplayer possibly installed)
  - From the SuSE DVD1 install  libsmbclient  (gives you libsmbclient.so.0)
  - From YaST2 modules choose 'Change installation media' and disable
    'DVD' and enable '/tmp'
  - From packman website download MPlayer0.90 and 'Install packet with YaST'
  - Make sure, you have installed the new MPlayer:
    rpm -qa | grep -i mplayer   should give display:   MPlayer-0.90-1
  --> Now you may watch movies / films from DVD
    - put DVD into your DVD drive
    - K-Menu (lower left-side) - Multimedia - Video - Mplayer
    - OK (window says, some path is wrong - neglect it)
    - right-click into mplayer window
    - Open... - Play DVD ... - OK (window says, some path is wrong - neglect it)

- RealPlayer download... (will be added soon...)

For SED-people only

- sux -
- enter root-password
- cd /app/vpnclient
- ./vpn_install (followed by CR to each question) to create new kernel-module
- /etc/init.d/vpnclient_init start
- cd /etc/vmware/vmnet1/smb
- cp smb.conf smb.conf_mit_user
- vmware-config.pl
  (re-compile new kernel-module; take existing network configuration)
- cp smb.conf_mit_user smb.conf
- /etc/init.d/vmware restart
  (this bounds 'Homes' under VMware into 'My Documents' again)
- exit (become regular user again)
- Change symbols/icons on your desktop for VMware and Matlab
- KDE-Kontrollzentrum - Systemverwaltung - Anmeldungsmanager -
  Systemverwaltungsmodus (root-pw) - Benutzer
  --> statt "Unter: 500" neu "Unter: 100"
  --> Anwenden

Below is the old part of this web-page. Almost all of the problems mentioned below are solved now by following the instructions given above.
However: Listening to 'Echo der Zeit' on http://echo.drs.ch is still not possible - not even with the latest RealPlayer downloaded from real.com - any suggestion from anybody?? Would be much appreciated!

- We did both: update and new install, with the same effects...
- Our NVIDIA did not work properly after the new install, until we had
  changed 'nv' in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config to 'nvidia'.
- mplayer showed video, but there was no sound, if a DVD movie was entered into
  the DVD drive.
- Also: 'xine' did not work for playing a movie from DVD (video, no sound).
- The icons/symbols on the desktop with partitions on the disk were not
  displayed appropriately after a new login / a new session - instead, they
  were messed up on the desktop.
- Konqueror was still not able to play sound on the web-page
  http://echo.drs.ch (Click on 'hoeren') - neither was the new Mozilla
  software... We got the message, that no realplayer was installed, although
  this wasn't the case.
- KDE control center (KDE 3.1.1) did not look nicely: one cannot expand the
  menu items - instead, you choose an item and then always have to go
  back to the previous item, before being able to choose a new item.
- Well, there are also advantages: SuSEwatcher is a nice thing and it is also
  nice that after a new login the 'Konsole' starts in the directory where
  you left it.
- Another advantage in SuSE 8.2 is, that the Online-Update seems to be much
  faster compared to 8.1: Quickly we got the list of updates!
- And: xcdroast comes with its new version alpha13 together with SuSE 8.2 .
- But where is the nice VMware-icon? It is not available anymore for a link
  on the desktop.

All in all, we did the following: Starting a rescue system and with this we entered cp /dev/hdb /dev/hda and then we had saved SuSE Linux 8.1 back for our productive work.
It seems, that SuSE 8.2 is not yet suitable for production machines... We therefore wait until more patches are available...