 Suse 10.0 Won't Install? |
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 Sep 27 2006, 09:30 PM
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Way Out Of Control - You need a life :)  Group: Members Posts: 1,366 Joined: 14-September 04 From: Nottingham England Member No.: 570  |
after re-booting you did remove the cd right ? if you bios is set to bott cd rom before hard disk, leaving the cd in will boot the installer every time your machine is switched on if the install disk in the drive. Ok,,, assuming its not that ( had to post it just incase... you know how the sily mistakes go un-seen ) I would guess that the installer is failing to install the boot loader. instead o running through the whole boot process again, install the boot loader manually. boot any linux medium, and run grub, or grub-install.. be sure to read man grub first if you dont know what you are doing. |
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Oct 7 2006, 03:20 AM
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Colonel Panic  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,890 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 myCENTs:37.19 |
it is odd that only the 900MHz range have problems. Did you try SuSE Linux 10.1? The new version should fix what the old one failed at fixing...
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Oct 12 2006, 04:04 AM
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NiGHTFoX - Hiding in the dark Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: 3-April 05 Member No.: 3,584 |
QUOTE(xboxrulz @ Oct 6 2006, 11:20 PM)  it is odd that only the 900MHz range have problems. Did you try SuSE Linux 10.1? The new version should fix what the old one failed at fixing... xboxrulz Can you verify that the 900MHz range of CPUs were having problems for me? Nope, haven't tried 10.1 yet. I don't have enough CDs and that computer doesn't have a DVD drive. I'm hoping to get some CDs soon because if there was some weird bug in 10 and 10.1 fixes it, I'll be happy to try again! [N]F |
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Oct 14 2006, 04:11 PM
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NiGHTFoX - Hiding in the dark Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: 3-April 05 Member No.: 3,584 |
Ok, I downloaded and tried to install 10.1 but I still got the same problem on the hardware configuration screen. I just don't get it. It's almost as bad as my laptop but my laptop won't run anything linux. Only Windows... well, it runs Ubuntu but there's no USB support (that's why all the other linux distros won't work on it. It tries to find USB and then it crashes).
I'm not sure what that computer has against SuSE (or what SuSE has against that computer). [N]F |
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Oct 14 2006, 04:18 PM
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Colonel Panic Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,890 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 myCENTs:37.19 |
What type of laptop do you have?
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Oct 15 2006, 03:27 PM
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NiGHTFoX - Hiding in the dark Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: 3-April 05 Member No.: 3,584 |
QUOTE(xboxrulz @ Oct 14 2006, 12:18 PM) What type of laptop do you have? xboxrulz Averatec C3500 (tablet PC/notebook). It's the dumbest thing ever. I swear it HATES anything open source (even my disk partitioning utilities that are based off of Linux won't run either. Like I said, only Ubuntu works but it doesn't seem to check the USB ports like the other Linux distros which cause kernel panics. It's very interesting since I've heard of other people installing SuSE and other versions of Linux on it. I don't know if I may need to flash the BIOS or what. Edit: I found something! After about 20 google searches with all sorts of combinations of keywords, I found this post on a forum: QUOTE Be aware: Linux will give you a hard time on a C3500 for Linux if you have a newer BIOS version (like TH11v1.0 10/11/04) . It will not boot unless you add the nomce switch, it will *not* support USB and PCMCIA. Other than that it runs fine  But a laptop without USB or PCMCIA is worthless.Michaela Still trying to get USB / PCMCIA working. If somebody would just be able to get us an older BIOS version ... :bawling: [N]F This post has been edited by nightfox: Oct 15 2006, 03:34 PM |
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Oct 15 2006, 04:09 PM
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Colonel Panic Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,890 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 myCENTs:37.19 |
apparently Averatec hardware doesn't like anything that isn't Windows based. You should file a complaint on that.
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Oct 16 2006, 03:21 AM
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NiGHTFoX - Hiding in the dark Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: 3-April 05 Member No.: 3,584 |
QUOTE(xboxrulz @ Oct 15 2006, 12:09 PM) apparently Averatec hardware doesn't like anything that isn't Windows based. You should file a complaint on that. xboxrulz Yeah... hmm... wonder how that would go? Probably something like this: Me: Hey, your hardware seems to only like Windows and not Linux! What gives? Them: ... Me: Is Microsoft paying you guys or something to have something against open source software?? Them: No. Umm.. the tablet PC features just aren't compatible with any other OS. Me: So what? I want to use Linux and I should have full hardware support! I can run very few distros but I don't have USB support which is critical. Them: Use Windows. Me: But I don't want to use Windows! Hmmm... now that I think about it, this sounds like a conversation I had with a sales rep for Dell. I told them I didn't want Windows on the hard disk because I was just going to install Linux over it and why should I pay for Windows if I wasn't going to use it. Except I know Dell hardware will run Linux with no problems... [N]F |
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