What happened when you tried to run text based installs? -----Original Message----- From: Ben Thorp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 October 2001 11:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scottish] Installation Difficulties
I am having problems getting installations to work!! It brings up the CD boot: prompt fine, but then the screen goes blank and the CD spins and sometimes the harddrive light flashes, but nothing happens. [Here's the history:] Cyrix 300 chip, now with 256Mb RAM, but with 4Mb shared RAM with the SiS 5597/8 onboard video chip :( The problem has only started occuring since I upgraded the memory, but I think this is due to now having enough RAM to enter a graphical install. Which would be nice. Have tried booting install disks from SuSE 6.3, SuSE 7.0, SuSE 7.1 and Mandrake 7.2. None work. Tried to fool it into thinking I had less memory, in case it was having problems with the shared memory, so tried booting with a 'linux mem=252M' paramter line, but that didn't work. SuSE specifically mentions the video card on the box, so it is supported. Anybody got any ideas? Ben Thorp -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************** IMPORTANT NOTE ************************** The above information is confidential to the addressee and may be privileged. Unauthorised access and use is prohibited. William M. Mercer Limited is regulated by IMRO and the Personal Investment Authority. Registered in London No. 984275 Registered Office: Telford House, 14 Tothill Street, London SW1H 9NB -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
