cheers fred
manchester
Paul.Miller [at] sth.nhs.uk wrote:
Dear All,
I recently had a disaster with my system, the power supply blew up taking out a lot of the components in the main box. So the system has had almost everything replaced, I've even replaced things which were apparently undamaged because you never know what subtle damage might have happened.So the problem is to install SuSE 7.1 onto a new system with all new up to the minute hardware, "no problem!" I hear you say, but actually there is.
When I boot from the SuSE disks they take an awfully long time to boot up and sometimes crash during the hardware detection part, if it gets through to the opening screen then all goes well until it starts to load packages from the CD ROM to the hard disk. Then it takes many minutes to load each package. If I start it up in the text based YAST then the problem is the same but looking through the list of hardware it has not detected both CD ROMs only the first one is listed.
There are two CD ROMs on the secondary IDE interface, a Samsung 52x as master and a LiteON CD writer as slave. The primary IDE interface has two identical 20Gb Maxtor hard disks. All the hardware works under windows, I was trying to put SuSE onto the second Maxtor hdd. Does anyone have any idea where I am going wrong?
Please help.
Regards
Paul J. Miller
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