On Friday 09 April 2004 11:39 pm, Jimbo wrote: > Greetings: > I am having a hard time installing suse on my newly built pc. I had sucessfully > installed it many times before on my old pc. > > I have the boxed version of suse 8.1 professional. I load up via cd. It shows me > various options to installing. I choose the top one (installation) which I have > done in the past. Then it loads kernel. Screens pop up asking what language and > type of keyboard. I hit enter on both occassions. Then, and this is where > installation halts, a message pops up asking me to be sure that cd 1 is installed. > I press enter for ok. Then a red box pops up and states that cd rom can not be > mounted. > > I tried to go manual installation but same error. I have tried alternative > installation disk 2 but same results. > > I have a P4 800mhz processor with 1GB memory and an intel motherboard. Thinking it > might be my cd rom I changed it with my other one that was used to install suse > before but same results. > > All cds are good/ not damaged. Googling just made me waste time. > > If someone can give me insight and direction I would be very grateful.
If you are sure the CD is not damaged, then it sounds like some kind of hardware incompatibility with Linux, or perhaps a hardware defect. Is the CD drive IDE? What's the motherboard? -- Rod _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
