SUSE 9.1 Pro - Driver Hunt
I am preparing to install SUSE 9.1 Professional on a Fujitsu-Siemens N5010 laptop. I have been thru its Windoze Device Manager and recorded all the devices, IRQs, memory and IO ports, and so forth. Before I begin my installation, I'd like to collect the latest drivers and documentation concerning the devices in the laptop, so I have them handy (burned to CD) before I start the install.
So, if Experts can provide links to SUSE 9.1-compatible drivers, and/or "How To" documents, for installing the devices listed below, I would greatly appreciate it (if you know that SUSE 9.1 Professional ships with the latest driver for the device, please let me know that too):
1) Texas Instruments OHCI-Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
2) Alps Electric Pointing Device
3) Agere Systems AC'97 Modem
4) Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter
5) RealTek RTL 8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC
6) Texas Instruments PCI xx20 Integrated Flash Media
7) Sigmatel C-Major Audio
8) Fujitsu FUJ02B1
9) SiS Accelerated Graphics Port
10) SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller
11) ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 display adapter
12) Toshiba SDR6112F DVD/CD R/W
Finally, any pointers or known "gotcha!" situations involving this hardware and SUSE 9.1 Pro would be helpful.
So, if Experts can provide links to SUSE 9.1-compatible drivers, and/or "How To" documents, for installing the devices listed below, I would greatly appreciate it (if you know that SUSE 9.1 Professional ships with the latest driver for the device, please let me know that too):
1) Texas Instruments OHCI-Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
2) Alps Electric Pointing Device
3) Agere Systems AC'97 Modem
4) Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter
5) RealTek RTL 8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC
6) Texas Instruments PCI xx20 Integrated Flash Media
7) Sigmatel C-Major Audio
8) Fujitsu FUJ02B1
9) SiS Accelerated Graphics Port
10) SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller
11) ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 display adapter
12) Toshiba SDR6112F DVD/CD R/W
Finally, any pointers or known "gotcha!" situations involving this hardware and SUSE 9.1 Pro would be helpful.
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I've read some places that Windoze would want to be in the first Primary partition. How do I do this?
Should I use the WIndoze bootloader? Or did you just seem to suggest grub? Where can I get grub as a separate product?
Note that I don't want to mount the other partitions directly under SUSE. I'll just run VMs that use those other partitions. As I understand it, that means I won't need any entries for them in fstab.
Should I use the WIndoze bootloader? Or did you just seem to suggest grub? Where can I get grub as a separate product?
Note that I don't want to mount the other partitions directly under SUSE. I'll just run VMs that use those other partitions. As I understand it, that means I won't need any entries for them in fstab.
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Well, I wante VMWare under SUSE to use those 15 GB partitions for the various OSes when it runs their VMs. My intention with allocating 35 GB to SUSE is that if I want to run any OTHER VMs, I can do so using the flat file option.
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Thanks for piping up. Yes, I had found out elsewhere that the video adapter is supported by the native install, and I figgered out the NIC was supported when I saw it listed as an option for the SUSE firewall product. :-)
On one of the SUSE mailing lists I've also been given to understand that the modem is *not* supported under SUSE, but I don't even have a dial-up account, so I'm not worried.
Here's the insane (or insanest) thing I want to do: I want to chop the HDD into 4 chunks. A 35 GB partition for SUSE, and 15 GB each for Solaris 9 x86, NetWare and W2K. I want to be able to boot directly to any of these OSes. I also plan to get VMWare and be able to boot to SUSE and then launch any of the other 3 OSes under a VM in SUSE, and share resources such as the NIC.
Calling the nice young men in their clean white coats yet?
Anyway, that's my goal, so to answer your query, yes, I *do* want to dual-boot. Or quad-boot, in this case. Any suggestions (aside from a higher lithium dose)?