My Suse-10.0 box set arrived today and I am sad to say this is the first
Suse install (since 8.0) I have ever done that actually falls over and
will not work?! Hopefully someone here can help me put it right?
The machine is P4 3.0GHz, with 200Gb SATA hard drive, PCIExpress 6600
graphics card and a Syncmaster 713N (17") lcd monitor. I have a separate
partition set aside for a fresh install. During install I divide it up
into / and /home mount points, formatted with Reiserfs.
Using dvd, I select software (I put Gnome and KDE on to start) and
everything proceeded ok.
During the install I got a message that the package
yast2-ncurses**x86_64 could not be installed. Funny I thought, why is it
putting a 64 bit version on as well, so, I chose ignore & proceed. Even
though my model of monitor was not detected correctly, the Hor. & Ver.
frequencies were the same so I let that go. However, X will not start no
matter what I try. I rebooted to Init 3, and even tried manual edit of
xorg.conf. Did not work.
So, I tried running sax2 from init 3 and it will not load. Tried yast
and that's when I realised I had no yast2-ncurses at all. I then checked
and noticed it had given me the smp kernel??? I don't have
multi-processor capability.
On 2nd try, in package selection, I manually looked at yast2-ncurses. It
was then I realised that ALL the software was being selected for the
x86_64 option and not the i586 option?!
So what, this thing thinks I have a multi-processor 64 bit system?! Well
I don't!
Is there someway to force an install of the i586 version of
kernel/software. Without yast2-ncurses, I just don't have enough
expertise to fix all this from the command line alone - and, in any
case, I want the right version of the install on my machine.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Paul.
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