Eero Ahonen wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Darren New wrote:
>>> SUSE 10.1 would crash during install on my machine unless I managed to
>>> interrupt it in the 0.75 seconds before it installed the buggy USB
>>> driver that would take out the system.  It took me literally two days
>>> of trying before I could get to a login prompt after an install.
> 
> What driver? What kernel does the system have?

I don't know. That was a while ago. It was apparently a known problem, 
not that it made it any easier to work around.  It sucks when youhave a 
bug in the software update software. :-)

> I'm being curious. Yes, it can be a buggy driver. OTOH, USB is pretty
> standardized system and AFAIK there hasn't been a lot of changes is USB
> host systems, so I think I should have heard of such a problem, but I
> never have.

Actually, I may be confused. The USB problem was the USB kernel thingie 
going compute-bound at high priority.  Fixed after an update.

There was soemthing else about the install.

> distribution", but I still don't think it should be generalized to be a
> *Linux* -feature.

I'm amused how whenever there's something good, it's a Linux thing, and 
whenever there's a problem, it's not Linux's fault but someone else's. ;-)

> Nope, you install NIC drivers and download the rest from the Internet ;).

And from one place!

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?

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