Dear All, I have a problem installing OpenSUSE10.2 on a pc with a SCSI system disk. I was running SuSE 9.3 (professional edition, bought), but was having problems doing an upgrade, so I decided to do a clean install of the new OS. I went through the initialisation for the installation, sorted out which disk to install to and how to partition it, and started it off. First step it does is to format the disk. It got as far as having done 74%, at which point it hung. After about 3 hours it decided it had done 80%; however I have now left it overnight and it still has done no more formatting of the disk (apparently). By "hung", I mean that it has not progressed; however the little cursor clock is still spinning and I can click on "help" which tells me that it can take some time to format a disk (5 minutes for a 4GB disk!!! This one is 36.2GB, and it has taken 18 hours so far).
What I would like to know is; is there a software issue here with SuSE on SCSI disks; or is it likely to be a hardware issue, i.e. a fault with the disk. I do remember having a similar problem some months back when I put SuSE9.3 on the machine. If there is a hardware issue here, I can just get a new disk and use that (in fact the machine has a 80GB second disk which could be substituted). If there is a software issue, I'm rather more stuck, (particularly as I have probably formatted over the existing OS now). Thanks in advance for any help here. Gavin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
