SuSE 8.0 Personal Installation

[LinuxHarley]

Unfortunately I am having a small problem on installation.

After booting from CD-ROM the Linux installation window jumps up. Gives me a few option (I have tried them all) and after I pick one, The CD-ROM revs up and the moniter goes black.... where it stays.

I called SuSE Installation help and they told me to input

linux vga=771 (or) linux vga=769

The only question he asked me was what my video card was.

I have an NVidia(sp?) GForce 2 64ram

Give me some advice... as for the video settings on installation I am giving 3 different screen types and tried them all. Including the text only one. Nothing seems to work. I am quite fearful that I will have to stay on hold long distance for them to walk me through a manual installation.

Computer hardware reads as follows:

AMD Athalon 1 gig
512 ram
Video card stated above
32x cd rom
30 gig HD

Send email to me or reply to this message. I would love to get this thing up and running tonight

jaguars40@aol.com

Thank you
Harley

[LinuxHarley]

Ok... can anyone point me in the right direction of maybe some material that will assist me?

[mdwatts]

I copied and pasted this from another thread I posted in yesterday.


For example, when I built my new box (dual AMD mp's etc.) a few months ago, I couldn't get my distro (Caldera) to install as it would just hang or reboot right at the start of the install.

I needed to add 'noapic' at the initial installation boot prompt to get Linux installed and then also add 'noapic' to the kernel line in my bootloader to allow Linux to boot.

kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.13-modular vga=274 quiet noapic root=/dev/hda3

There's noapic, nopentium, noathlon, nodma and others you can try. That is why I suggested the Redhat installation documentation.



See what else you can find on the SuSE website that you can try during the installation.

[LinuxHarley]

Thank you for the reply! I am still constantly on the pages looking for other people with the same problem. Or possibly some literature that will walk me through it.

[mdwatts]

Have you checked to see if the problem could be caused by one or more of your bios settings?

[LinuxHarley]

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Try the option 'installation - safe settings' and add the parameter
mem=512M and press f2 (for text mode). If this fails boot into the
rescue system (login is root no password) and run the command hwinfo to
see if it halts anywhere.

If it does not fail then insert a floppy disk in the drive, and run:

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
hwinfo > /mnt/hwinfo.log
umount /mnt

and send hwinfo.log as ascii text within the email rather than as an
attachment.
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was the responce I recieved from them. I am currently slaving away at work and will be home to try this theory out.

Not sure bout the BIOS. I am sure everything should be fine... and if it is not. I have no idea how to make it correct.

[mdwatts]

That is not really a theory to try out.

All SuSE wants is a dump of your hardware configuration so they can have a look.

[Dun'kalis]

How long did you wait? It took a while for it to load on my system, and my specs are VERY similar to yours.

[LinuxHarley]

I let it run its little thing "running the CDROM up" and let it turn black.... left it on bout 3 hours =)

I thought the same thing... but I was wrong. I didnt get home last night to get the info to SuSE.

:Dun'kalis How long did you wait? It took a while for it to load on my system, and my specs are VERY similar to yours. :

Did you have to add any additional commands to the line?

[xalice]

I wish I could offer some help but I can tell you that I've experienced exactly the same problems. I'm working with nearly the same hardware configuration (exceptions: GeForce 3 titanium, 80g Maxtor hd).

The last suggestion I got from Suse was to try the safe setting, text mode, and add the vga and mem=512m options. I haven't had a chance to try it yet since the machine I was having problems with is down for some hardware fine-tuning (new CPU heatsink & fan), but it is interesting to know that someone else is experiencing the same problem.

If I make any progress I'll be sure and let you know!

[Sastraxi]

I had similar problems installing Mandrake 8.2 - the CDs were scratched. In the end, I reburned the ISOs and it worked. Since SuSE doesn't distribute ISOs, you bought this? Well, you can still do an FTP install if nothing else works, and install the commerical pacakges AFTER SuSE's up and running, so it's like you just installed from the CD.

Remember, through vigilance you will prevail.

[Dun'kalis]

Actually, it booted fine...

I've had problems installing XP off of a scratched CD...It was very small. If I could, I'd burn you a copy of my SuSE CDs and send you them.

EDIT: Try booting from a floppy. I prodded my SuSE CD 1, and found some boot floppys on it...Under disks/. Just read the readme, and install RAWRITE from the dosutils/ directory.

[Sastraxi]

If it's an ethics problem, dunkalis, you're allowed, officially, to "lend the CDs to your friend and let them install it". But I suppose its up to you :)

[Dun'kalis]

Its has nothing to do with ethics (I'll give Linux to whoever wants it) but only with the fact I am refusing to boot to Windows, and I haven't set up by CD burner in Linux...

:D

[Sastraxi]

I don't have that option, as I do professional work in C++, Visual Basic, and ASP. I, however, await the day when .NET will compile on all platforms!!!

:D - Evil Laughter follows

[LinuxHarley]

<breathes in deeply> Ahhh information!

Working on all the suggestings. Will chime in when I can translate linux speak =)

Thank you ALL for your infomation and time. Greatly appreciated

[LinuxHarley]

Just thought I would throw in an update for what happened in this situation.

SuSE 8.0 Personal is sitting on my desk collecting dust as we speak. But.. I signed myself up for SuSE update emails and the person sending me the emails was un aware that I was somewhat distrot due to customer service/not going with updated video cards yada yada...

2 Days ago I got an email confirming my purchase of SuSE 8.1 Professional charging to my credit card of $0.00

Now thats... customer service! If I run into the same problem... I am gonna stick with Winblows.:mad: