On Thursday 13 October 2005 16:58, Paul Trevethan wrote: > My Suse-10.0 box set arrived today and I am sad to say this is the first > Suse install (since 8.0) I have ever done that actually falls over and > will not work?! Hopefully someone here can help me put it right? > > The machine is P4 3.0GHz, with 200Gb SATA hard drive, PCIExpress 6600 > graphics card and a Syncmaster 713N (17") lcd monitor. I have a separate > partition set aside for a fresh install. During install I divide it up > into / and /home mount points, formatted with Reiserfs. > > Using dvd, I select software (I put Gnome and KDE on to start) and > everything proceeded ok. > > During the install I got a message that the package > yast2-ncurses**x86_64 could not be installed. Funny I thought, why is it > putting a 64 bit version on as well, so, I chose ignore & proceed. Even > though my model of monitor was not detected correctly, the Hor. & Ver. > frequencies were the same so I let that go. However, X will not start no > matter what I try. I rebooted to Init 3, and even tried manual edit of > xorg.conf. Did not work. > > So, I tried running sax2 from init 3 and it will not load. Tried yast > and that's when I realised I had no yast2-ncurses at all. I then checked > and noticed it had given me the smp kernel??? I don't have > multi-processor capability. > > On 2nd try, in package selection, I manually looked at yast2-ncurses. It > was then I realised that ALL the software was being selected for the > x86_64 option and not the i586 option?! > > So what, this thing thinks I have a multi-processor 64 bit system?! Well > I don't! > > Is there someway to force an install of the i586 version of > kernel/software. Without yast2-ncurses, I just don't have enough > expertise to fix all this from the command line alone - and, in any > case, I want the right version of the install on my machine. > > Any help greatly appreciated. > Paul. >
Hi, when you boot from your installation-DVD you've got the possibility to select the architecture. Press F2 for more options and select the right architecture and do a reinstall. Uli --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
