Category Archives: Installation

Recovering from a bad initrd image

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Christian Krog Madsen

When Linux is booted by the boot loader, it will first load the kernel image (usually /boot/vmlinuz) into memory, followed by the initial boot ramdisk (usually /boot/initrd). If for some reason the initrd image has been corrupted, booting may fail. … Continue reading →

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Installing ATI graphics drivers on OpenSUSE 10.2

Posted on April 6, 2007 by Christian Krog Madsen

To get 3D graphics acceleration on ATI Radeon X1xxx series graphics cards, ATI’s proprietary driver must be installed. Ideally, it should be a simple exercise: download the driver from ATI and follow their installation instructions. However, using the automated installer, … Continue reading →

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Installing OpenSUSE 10.2 on a T60 Thinkpad

Posted on April 6, 2007 by Christian Krog Madsen

A while back I got a new Lenovo T60 Thinkpad. Of course it can pre-installed with WinXP taking up all of the harddrive except for the 4gb hidden recovery partition. Installation The setup I wanted was a dual-boot with OpenSUSE … Continue reading →

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Updated OpenSUSE 10.1 images available

Posted on October 13, 2006 by Christian Krog Madsen

Update: The remastered CD/DVD images are now definitely on the OpenSUSE download page. Today it was announced that a “remastered” version of the OpenSUSE 10.1 CD images is available for download. This new set of CD’s includes all security patches … Continue reading →

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Trouble with 1920×1200 resolution

Posted on September 10, 2006 by Christian Krog Madsen

Today, I replaced my Lacie 19″ CRT with an awesome Dell 2407 WFP LCD widescreen connected via DVI to a GeForce4 MX graphics card. After booting, everything was fine until I reached the xdm login screen. Somehow the display was … Continue reading →

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Ink is flowing!

Posted on July 12, 2006 by Christian Krog Madsen

As reported in the original post about my installation of OpenSUSE, my Canon iP4200 winprinter was detected during the initial install. When I tried to print, though, nothing happened, as I had suspected.After a bit of googling, I found a … Continue reading →

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First looks – OpenSUSE 10.1 Installation

Posted on July 7, 2006 by Christian Krog Madsen

Slick! — that is the best word I can find to describe the installation procedure in OpenSUSE 10.1. Today, almost all desktop Linux distributions have a graphical installer which hides most of the gory details of installing an operating system. … Continue reading →

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