It sounds like a hard drive - or connection - failure.
Reg wrote:
..somehow windows xp got trashed.. when I use that exact same cd install disk to reinstall linux it boots to cd, opens the pretty blue screen and gives me options to install with various options. Sadly when I do that all I get is a black screen, constantly red hard drive light and no action or pretty blue screens I have tried re fdisking the drive and formatting it etc. with a windows floppy, all to no avail, just the same result. Any ideas how to fix this and get suse installed again appreciated.
Can you get in & check? / Who built the box? -- Rik Tindall, InfoHelp Services <http://www.infohelp.co.nz> on virus-free Ubuntu GNU/Linux 6.06 freeOS, 2.6.15-23-686 kernel, GNOME 2.14.1 desktop
