Ok, so I err - maybe.

Been a while since my last posting. Got a TV Tuner card to try and capture old home movies to DVD. If I can get this one to work, well, I'll be very happy. In the process of working this thing out, I decided Mandrake had too many problems with hardware detection, file systems, etc... I'm not killing it though as I have it on 3 or 4 other machines.

The new hard drive (160GB Maxtor) died on me. Got a replacement from Maxtor - warranty coverage. Installed it, formatted into 2 partitions, but something happened with the Mandrake part. management tools and the partition tables got overlapped. Well, I deciced to copy off my data - my music collection mostly - do a D-BAN wipe of the drive was the only way to go. I got a clean drive to install SuSE on. Yea. That looks like a winner. It might even make Mandrake take a back seat... at least on my main computer.

In a thus far, failed attempt to make my Asus TV Tuner / Capture card function, I decided to leap to SuSE.

From my initial view, it's a very sweet distribution. Bulky? Yes. Older Kernel? Yes.

Did the install via ftp - direct from a mirror site. If I feel good enough about it I might just plunk down some dough and get the boxed set.

Will keep you posted.

nomasteryoda, out.