I suspect that you have some generic problem. I am writing this from a shuttle running RH9 (at the moment) but have had no real problem putting up any of the other distros. Some distros (RH9 among them) do not know how to deal with the NVIDIA chipset's networking -- download the appropriate stuff from NVIDIA to get your network up. Of course, that means that over-the-net installation is not easy (-:
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Paul Grenyer wrote: > Hi All > > I'm new around here and I'm hoping someone may be able to help me with a > problem I have. > > I recently bought a Shuttle SN45G > (http://us.shuttle.com/specs_access.asp?pro_id=279), which has an "North > bridge - NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400, South bridge - MCP-T" chip-set. > > I have tried a number of different Linux distributions, but most of them, > including Debian 3.0, Slackware 9.1 and Gentoo 1.4 won't even boot from the > installation cd. I've managed to install Mandrake 9.1, but that failed on > first boot. I've installed Red Hat 9.0, but that refused to boot after the > first day. I've also installed SuSE 8.1, but that was horrible to use and > didn't appear to want to online update . > > As I said above I couldn't get Gentoo 1.4 to boot. I've also tried the > latest Live CD, but that won't boot either. Has anyone managed to get Gentoo > (or any other distribution) working correctly with my chipset? > > Thanks! > > Regards > Paul > > Paul Grenyer > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.paulgrenyer.co.uk > > Please note my change of email address! > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
