Hi, I got a new machine yesterday. An Intel motherboard with P4 processor, a Seagate Barracuda 80GB drive, a CD-ROM and a CD-writer/DVD combo. I can boot successfully from either the SuSE 8.1 CD1 or DVD in the respective drives. However I get the message "Cannot find SuSE 8.1 CD1. Starting manual installation." After going into the manual installation it appears that neither the CD/DVD drives nor the hard drive can be found. I would tend to rule out a hardware problem as I was able to install Windows XP and all drives work fine. Any suggestions on how to get past this problem? -- Steve Crane http://craniac.afraid.org
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 03:29, craniac (Steve Crane) wrote:
Hi,
I got a new machine yesterday. An Intel motherboard with P4 processor, a Seagate Barracuda 80GB drive, a CD-ROM and a CD-writer/DVD combo.
I can boot successfully from either the SuSE 8.1 CD1 or DVD in the respective drives. However I get the message "Cannot find SuSE 8.1 CD1. Starting manual installation." After going into the manual installation it appears that neither the CD/DVD drives nor the hard drive can be found.
I would tend to rule out a hardware problem as I was able to install Windows XP and all drives work fine.
Any suggestions on how to get past this problem? -- Steve Crane http://craniac.afraid.org ==================
Steve, Not sure if this will work for you, but it's simple and worth a try. Unhook the cdrw/dvd combo drive and make the cdrom hdc, or the first drive on the second IDE channel. See if your problems go away then. I believe there have been problems with the cdrw/dvd combo drives, so start there. You would probably be better off with a dvd drive and cdrw drive in the system. Pat -- --- KMail v1.5.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
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