IMO you got way too small space for SuSE and the ext2 & swap partitions are totally illogical to me. For a standard SuSE installation I would do:

/boot 10MB (within the 1024 limit if you are going to use SuSE 6.4 Lilo to boot)

/swap 192MB (if your RAM is 192MB as you say; why do a 100MB swap?)

/ at least 3.5GB, with the size of harddisk you got I would make it still bigger.

On a single box I would never divide the partitions into /home or /temp like you do, the /data1 is OK if you are going to use it for CD-burning for ex.

I can understand the installer to crash on these premises, I would do that too.

Well, I can't understand why it would crash...the disk sizes have nothing to do with it..possibly the swap, but even so for an installation and a machine with that much memory. I have installed Suse into much smaller spaces with no trouble at all. The question of a /homes or not is also irrelevant to the problem. But that is a religious question.. Cliff

On Monday 29 January 2001 11:25, Guy Van Sanden wrote:

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Hello everyone

I advised a colleague to install SuSE (6.4) on his system (he's currently running windows). He tried it, but during install, it crashes every time (while copying packages to the harddrive). It beeps, the screen goes blank and the system reboots, leaving Linux semi-installed.

Which, off course is very embarrasing for me... because he installed Win95 and Win2000 earlier without problems.

He configured his 45 GB HD like this

------------------------------- Windows 95 - 1 GB ------------------------------- Windows 2000 - 1.5 GB ------------------------------- / Ext2 - 2 GB ------------------------------- NTFS - ? ------------------------------- SWAP 100 MB ------------------------------- /tmp 300 MB ------------------------------- /home 1 GB ------------------------------- /data 1 GB ------------------------------- FAT ------------------------------- Unused about 30 GB -------------------------------

Has anybody got any ideas? I was considering whether the controller could be the problem...

THANKS

Guy

Specs: -------------------------- Intel Celeron 450 Mobo: ABIT BH6 192 MB RAM Matrox G200 Mystique Iomega buz SoundBlaster 16 CDWRITER: ACER 4x4x32 (master on secondary controller on mobo)

PROMISE Ultra 66 IDE controller card IBM GXP75 - 45 GB

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