Suse 10.0 Won't Install?

I don't get this... I've downloaded the 5 (?) CD set of SuSE 10. It installs PERFECTLY however, the last step, the hardware thing (I forget what it is called), it quits on it and won't boot SuSE, it goes DIRECTLY into YaST and it's an endless loop... anyone else have similar install problems?Thanks![N]F

I did.I experienced this problem on Fedora Core 4 and SuSE 10. Don't know, what's so special about them I wrote to the developers of both distributives, but none could answer me, where was the problem. The only way out we found was to reinstall it again and again, until it goes clear.Sorry man, you just have to do it By the way, they told me that this problem occurs only on WMware, where I tried to install it. But, as I see, they where wrong Worse for them.Talking about SuSE 10, although I like it as an desktop system, I totally don't recommend you to use it as gateway, because thier new firewall is completely creazy! I spend a week reading mans and trying to configure it properly, and only then it worked. I find ipchains, iptables or, even more, pf from OpenBSD, much more suitable. By the choice is up to you.It isn't a big problem to configure it using GUI, but it is less powerfull, and besides I always prefer textmode, so...

ok, here's the deal. If you post your specs, I might be able to help you.xboxrulz

ok, here's the deal. If you post your specs, I might be able to help you.
xboxrulz

Sorry for the delay! I was trying out other distros. Red Hat 9 won't find my ethernet adapters so I can't get online so I had to install some others and uggg.... it has been a mess.

It's an i386 (Intel Pentium III 900MHz), 512 MB RAM, 40 gig hard drive.

If you need any more specs, just let me know

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hmmm... it should work. I just got a 550 MHz Pentium III 128MB RAM machine working with SuSE Linux 10.0. At times like this, you should try redownloading them and before burning them check their MD5Checksumxboxrulz

Edited April 13, 2006 by xboxrulz (see edit history)

That's another possiblity, except I also have SuSE Enterprise Server 9 RC5 that I borrowed & copied from a tech at school. It does the EXACT same thing except the first initial login causes problems. This is strange because I've installed that version on a Pentium II about 500-600 MHz 512 MB RAM and it worked fine.Do you know of any software that will run in Windows to check the checksums?[N]F

All CD burning software have an MD5Checksum checker. I don't recommend you running Release Candidates (RC). As they are quite unstable. Run SuSE Linux 10.0, it is stable and I don't think you need to run the server edition for your desktop.xboxrulz

That's another possiblity, except I also have SuSE Enterprise Server 9 RC5 that I borrowed & copied from a tech at school. It does the EXACT same thing except the first initial login causes problems. This is strange because I've installed that version on a Pentium II about 500-600 MHz 512 MB RAM and it worked fine.
Do you know of any software that will run in Windows to check the checksums?

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This one can: http://www.nullriver.com/products/winmd5sum

Hello dude, it seems u have done some mistakes during installation.. I never had a problem...do not install in graphical mode... Try using character mode only.. may be u r practiced with character based installation...i beleive by this time u have installed properly..(or shifted to some other Linux variation)..if then come back to SuSE only....Becaause noe u get XGL .. this is nothing but provids 3d effect for your system..When u close ur applciation it is just not simply close it diffuse.. and while switching between desktops it gives u the feel of rotating a dice.. u can set up option like seeing from outside of dice and as well as inside of dice also and obviously u can set another wallpaper on the top(virtual)..also..while pressing alt+tab... earlier u see only few icons now compressed and transparent small image of the original application wil be displayed..and more over window chooser are given... u have some 15 application how long u will press alt+tab combinations.. so just press Some F11 or f12 (u can configure) all the thumnails of original application will be displayed and u can just click the application whatever u want...and many more is given... only SuSE can compete to MS windows in Desktop environment....hope u too enjoy that............

Im having trouble installing suse server edition 9, it starts to boot from disk, but then tells me to insert disk 1, which is already in the drive. Ive tries every Cd, and nothing is working. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

after re-booting you did remove the cd right ?if you bios is set to bott cd rom before hard disk, leaving the cd in will boot the installer every time your machine is switched on if the install disk in the drive.Ok,,, assuming its not that ( had to post it just incase... you know how the sily mistakes go un-seen )I would guess that the installer is failing to install the boot loader.instead o running through the whole boot process again, install the boot loader manually.boot any linux medium, and run grub, or grub-install..be sure to read man grub first if you dont know what you are doing.

it is odd that only the 900MHz range have problems. Did you try SuSE Linux 10.1? The new version should fix what the old one failed at fixing...xboxrulz

it is odd that only the 900MHz range have problems. Did you try SuSE Linux 10.1? The new version should fix what the old one failed at fixing...xboxrulz

Can you verify that the 900MHz range of CPUs were having problems for me? Nope, haven't tried 10.1 yet. I don't have enough CDs and that computer doesn't have a DVD drive. I'm hoping to get some CDs soon because if there was some weird bug in 10 and 10.1 fixes it, I'll be happy to try again!

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Ok, I downloaded and tried to install 10.1 but I still got the same problem on the hardware configuration screen. I just don't get it. It's almost as bad as my laptop but my laptop won't run anything linux. Only Windows... well, it runs Ubuntu but there's no USB support (that's why all the other linux distros won't work on it. It tries to find USB and then it crashes).I'm not sure what that computer has against SuSE (or what SuSE has against that computer).[N]F

What type of laptop do you have?xboxrulz