Thanks for the info lads. I reckon the problem is with the SATA disks
and I'll have to find a way to get round it. If nothing else comes up
I'll take Danny's advice and fit a (non-SATA) disk toget an install done
and sort out the disk problem afterwards.
Merry Christmas,
Colin
Kenny Kerr wrote:
I had problems installing 9.0 on a laptop. the problem was no packages
found during the install, due to a 'known issue' with CDRW/DVD combo drives.
I can't remember what the workaround was but it took me a couple of days to
sort it out.
Cheers
Kenny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "SLUG-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 12:55 PM
Subject: [Scottish] New PC and SUSE woes
Hi all,
Recently got a new 'multimedia' PC - 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 (hyperthreaded),
512 Mb RAM, 230-ish Gb SATA disk, wireless USB keyboard and mouse,
DVD-RW and DVD ROM, bluetooth, 2 x ethernet, Firewire, wireless,
TV/radio, Nvidia Geforce. and thought this would be a great Linux box
(if I could get it working) and that's where my troubles began!
I've used SUSE for some years and want to stay with that if I can. First
I tried 9.1 Personal (magazine DVD) and no-way would it recognise the
keyboard and mouse. After googling about I found the best option was to
replace them with the corded variety and set up the wireless ones later.
But I also read lots and lots of tales of many problems with 9.1 so
decided to go back to 9.0 Professional, the official SUSE distribution
I've used on other machines since it was released.
Now YAST won't recognise the disk at all so the install is a no go.
Has anyone any idea how I might get around this one? Might it be BIOS
settings that are causing the problem? If ned be I'll dust off the
wallet and spring for 9.2.
Any suggestions gratefully received and a happy Christmas to all,
Colin
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