OK - I went home and tried a few things. At the moment neither text nor graphical installation is working, either booting from CD or the Boot disk that SuSE 7.1 comes with. My Mandrake 7.2 disk doesn't work either. Not that I mention it, I'm not sure that my Debian 2.2r2 disks work anymore either. I have tried specifying different memory levels to 'fool' the installer. My Mandrake 7.2 system boots from GRUB fine, and I specified the amount of memory as a boot time option. The BIOS is reporting the correct amount of memory. I am using a Jetway mobo, with both SIMM and DIMM slots and I upgraded from 1x32Mb DIMM to 2x128Mb DIMM. The shared memory comes from Bank0 of the memory. The memory was some generic stuff bought from www.ebuyer.com and doesn't seem to have caused any other problems.
Any ideas? Ben >And what's wrong with text installs? Eh? You'll be saying you don't like >'vi' next. >I've got mandrake 7.0 to `graphically install' with 32 Meg so it seems >unlikely that you don't have enough memory. I think top of my list of stuff >to look at in detail would be how Linux copes with sharing main memory with >the video card. >HTH >Colin -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
