Re: [SLE] 9.0 installation problems

From: humvee (humvee_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 11/01/03

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    To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 01:41:48 +0000

    On Saturday 01 November 2003 06:35, Mike L wrote:
    > Hello All,
    > Trying to install 9.0 Personal without success!!
    > System is AMD Athlon 500, 256meg mem, 10g Ext2 partition set up with
    > Partition Magic and using BootMagic to dual boot.
    >
    > Process starts OK from CD1 or CD2 but stops after:-
    > "starting yast" - then a further 2 lines.
    > Then the dreaded RED BOX with "an error occured during the installation"
    > quickly appears, I cannot stop this appearing to be able to give you full
    > details of the last 10 lines or so of the sequence.
    > This happens at exactly the same point whether I try:-
    > Installation
    > Installation - ACPI Disabled
    > Installation - Safe settings
    > Manual
    >
    > or whether BootMagic is activated or not.
    >
    > Any ideas, I really want to use Linux.(totally fed up with Uncle Bill)
    > Tried distro 6.4 a few years ago but finally gave up after 8 months of pure
    > hassle, and a lot of help from this list, but at least it loaded and dual
    > booting worked fine, thought this latest distro would be somewhat easier !!
    >
    > Mike L

    Hi Mike

    I haven't got 9.0 yet but had similar problems in 8.2.
    Starting installation in text mode worked for me as there was an initial
    conflict with the graphics set up.

    The other thing I did - using Partition Commander instead of PartitionMagic -
    albeit with a seperate hard drive for SuSE, was once the partition was
    formatted with FAT16/32 (cant remember which) I unstalled the partition
    software and started the instalation.

    When I ran with text only it all went smoothly.

    Hope this is of some use.

    Humvee 

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