Alex Daniloff wrote:
Hello SuSE folkz, We have a big problem - unable to install SuSE 9.2 on our new dual AMD-64bit Opteron machine with Adaptec 2120S RAID-5 controller. I tend to suspect that it's because 64-bit version of SuSE 9.2 has been provided on a single side dual layer DVD alongside with 32-bit version. Test install of the previous distro of SuSE 9.1 64-bit version went just fine (it had two side DVD with 32-bit on one and 64-bit on another side).
Here are the problems:
1. In normal and save installation modes SuSE 9.2 installer hangs indefinitely on 'searching for info file'. End of story.
This one is easy, either put a floppy in the drive or wait a long time for it to move on, I've seen this problem since about 8.0 or 8.1 and I've had it this evening on a laptop that has no floppy.
2. In manual installation mode SuSE 9.2 installer loads proper drivers (e.g aacraid for Adaptec 2120S RAID) but it exits its graphical mode with a report 'No hard drives found'.
I pass up on this one.
Test install of 32-bit version of SuSE 9.2 from the CDs went just fine but what is the advantage of using 32-bit OS on 64-bit platform!?
On 64-bit, there were some problems with 9.1 building some apps, haven't checked it out yet on 9.2 x86_64. I can't see any advantage, I run 64-bit 9.2, upgraded from 9.1 fine. 64-bit is native and I'd expect 64-bit apps to run faster, kernel builds are certainly faster on the x86_64 laptop XP3000+/slower clock speed than on 32-bit XP3000+, both with with 512MB, though the laptop has 1024M cache, so that may be the difference. Regards Sid.
Could somebody please give me a practical advise how to overcome this issue. SuSE staff, please make your comments on this problem.
Regards,
Alex
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