Got a call in the morning for a future job which involves Suse Enterprise. Decided to try an evaluation version since I have not been using it for 3 years. I had to jump through various Novell registration loops to get the urls and when I clicked on them, I got various server errors, like a tomcat runtime error. Got really fed up and wrote an angry email to novell tech support. This is just unprofessional. Googled a bit and found out that the university of michigan provides iso images as well. Unfortunately you need to register for that. Fortunately they are offering guest accounts and I managed to download the iso images with decent speed. I am not sure, if guest users are really allowed to d/l the isos, but anyhow.

The installation process did not work, of course. The installation system crashed with a segfault while scanning the partitions. Apparently the installer got confused with the lvm paritions or something. Grabbed another harddrive, unplugged the old one and did an installation. There has not been a lot of change. You still do the configuration via Yast2 - and there is still the console support.

My 8 month old lg burner seems to misbehave more and more. I think I need to replace it.