Re: will SUSE do what Red Hat can't?

From: Bobbie (iamhungery_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 07/28/05 

Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:57:53 GMT

Hi Sam;

I am in the final stages of switching to linux, and I have also difficulties
successfully installing. Years ago my Redhat 5.2 (I think) installed fine,
but I didn't have much time to play with it so I lost interest. Last month,
I tried again and was successfull with Suse linux, and it works fine. Mind
you I had to try 4 other flavours of linux before I found one that would
install for me, and being a newbie, I just concider that the cost (I gladly
payed for 3, and downloaded the other one) of getting started.

Just try other distrobutions of linux, I am sure that you will find one that
more accuratly detects your hardware and have fun!

Glenn

sam@pharo.com wrote:

> Having fits with Red Hat 4.0, does anyone know if SUSE will work
> better?
> *************prev. posting*************
>
> Has anyone been successful at loading current version of Red Hat on
> Compaq 590/64 Itanium system? I bought one to "explore" new Linux
> release, but have been unable to load OS. After properly part-ing the
> disk and then loading disk 1, the system uncompresses into ram disk
> and begins installation. There is now apparent way to stop screen
> scrolling past, and virtual term keys do not work.
>
> As near as I can see, the system decides that there is something wrong
> with some aspect of the scsi channel, and then goes into the normal
> screen based (as opposed to graphics based) install mode.
>
> The screen does not clear, however before starting the install, and
> after asking for the country, the keyboard type, the load type (CD,
> NFS, FTP or HTTP), it says that I don't have a CD in the drive
> (obviously I do), and it will not progress. I can go back to the
> "which country" screen, but no further. Interestingly, the system
> forces me to the dreaded "paper clip method" of opening the CD drive
> at this point. Even after doing this, and then reclosing the drive to
> initialize it agin, there is no change.
>
> The Compaq log from the EFI system is not logging any problems with
> the scsi channel, or with the drive. Since it takes about 5 minutes
> to reboot each time, this is becoming excrutiating.
>
> Has anyone loaded 4.0, or 3.0 on this Itanium 1 system, or any Itanium
> 1 system?
>
> response is kaschenatattdotnet

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