Hi
Do you have a suse boot disk?
if not go to suses site and get one.
Boot from the floppy... and it will ask where you want to install from
choose cd rom.
from there it dosent get any easier. Suses cdrom install is as graphical
as you'll find ;-)
You may be having problems loading your cdrom? in that case Im pretty
sure suses disk can issue you the correct module./driver.
when you start the boot disk ther ewill be a dialog box saying something
about loading modules.. choose autoprobe.
You may have to be more specific with exactly where it hangs... does it
"see" the cdrom?
When booting from a floppy, and selecting cdrom what happens? I
personally wouldnt waste my time copying over to a hard drive...
because latter you may want to add a program via yast and you'll need
your cdrom.
So... a little more specific on exactly what happens.
Id venture a guess {{{cringe}}} you have a generic atapi cdrom if youre
running w3.11
If thats the case suse linux should have no problem identifying your
cdrom. Do you know what type of cdrom you have?
keep trying
rob
Linux Home page http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
malcolml leatherby wrote:
>
> I have suse 5.3 and suse 5.2
>
> It will not load on my machine - AMD k5
> 16 mb 1.2g hd cdrom atapi (takaya)
>
> I have tried booting from the floppy, the cdrom and copying the files
> from the cdrom to the hd.
>
> I have tried loading with the hd loaded with dos.
>
> I have tried loading with the hd clean.
>
> All have the following result.
>
> Long list of text lines run down the screen - last one is a reference to
> the cdrom.
>
> It was obvious that it was due to my incompetence so I stole (borrowed)
> someone else's machine. 5.3 loads - so far I have only run yast and
> fvwm2, but it seems fine. So the discs are o.k.!
>
> Am I correct in thinking that as linux starts to boot from both the
> floppy and the cdrom that it could be a hardware problem but not the
> floppy or cd?
>
> Does the fact that it always stops at the same line indicate anything?
>
> Is the last line, e.g. CDROM, saying that the CDROM is the cause of the
> stoppage or is the CDROM ok and the system is hanging due to whatever
> should appear on the next line?
>
> Is it possible that while I have the borrowed machine I could somehow
> produce a floppy (minimal system) for my machine that would enable me to
> interrogate it?
>
> Both machines will run on the same windows 3.1.
>
> The annoying thing is that I am aware that it will take me a long time
> to learn even a little about linux but without even the minimum of linux
> running I am unable to progress, however slowly.
>
> Any advice or pointers would be much appreciated.
> --
> malcolm
-
To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the
archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
