Re: [Sheflug] I'm having some problems with my system.

[jeffrey l koehn <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 04 October 2001 05:53, you 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

I have seen this problem before
and replacing the CD-ROM and or the CD-RW
will solve the problem.
The Problem I had was with a Samsung 8x8x32 CD-RW
that i was using it to load Redhat 7.1 on a new system,
so i replaced the CD-RW with an LG 4x8x32
and everthing was fine.
----------------------Cyclox
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