It appears that another OS can work on it. It has to be a compatibility issue of my motherboard or memory.
This looks like a job for SUPER INSTALLFEST! (doing my best superman pose). I can always build another box w/ old motherboard and use that but darn!, I wanted to see how suse works on a top of the line setup. Jim George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Roark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] installing suse linux 8.1 > 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 > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
