I have suse 5.3 and suse 5.2
It will not load on my machine - AMD k5
16 mb 1.2g hd cdrom atapi (takaya)
I have tried booting from the floppy, the cdrom and copying the files
from the cdrom to the hd.
I have tried loading with the hd loaded with dos.
I have tried loading with the hd clean.
All have the following result.
Long list of text lines run down the screen - last one is a reference to
the cdrom.
It was obvious that it was due to my incompetence so I stole (borrowed)
someone else's machine. 5.3 loads - so far I have only run yast and
fvwm2, but it seems fine. So the discs are o.k.!
Am I correct in thinking that as linux starts to boot from both the
floppy and the cdrom that it could be a hardware problem but not the
floppy or cd?
Does the fact that it always stops at the same line indicate anything?
Is the last line, e.g. CDROM, saying that the CDROM is the cause of the
stoppage or is the CDROM ok and the system is hanging due to whatever
should appear on the next line?
Is it possible that while I have the borrowed machine I could somehow
produce a floppy (minimal system) for my machine that would enable me to
interrogate it?
Both machines will run on the same windows 3.1.
The annoying thing is that I am aware that it will take me a long time
to learn even a little about linux but without even the minimum of linux
running I am unable to progress, however slowly.
Any advice or pointers would be much appreciated.
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malcolm
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