help please - 1st Suse Install ever to fall over here!!!!
My Suse-10.0 box set arrived today and I am sad to say this is the first Suse install (since 8.0) I have ever done that actually falls over and will not work?! Hopefully someone here can help me put it right? The machine is P4 3.0GHz, with 200Gb SATA hard drive, PCIExpress 6600 graphics card and a Syncmaster 713N (17") lcd monitor. I have a separate partition set aside for a fresh install. During install I divide it up into / and /home mount points, formatted with Reiserfs. Using dvd, I select software (I put Gnome and KDE on to start) and everything proceeded ok. During the install I got a message that the package yast2-ncurses**x86_64 could not be installed. Funny I thought, why is it putting a 64 bit version on as well, so, I chose ignore & proceed. Even though my model of monitor was not detected correctly, the Hor. & Ver. frequencies were the same so I let that go. However, X will not start no matter what I try. I rebooted to Init 3, and even tried manual edit of xorg.conf. Did not work. So, I tried running sax2 from init 3 and it will not load. Tried yast and that's when I realised I had no yast2-ncurses at all. I then checked and noticed it had given me the smp kernel??? I don't have multi-processor capability. On 2nd try, in package selection, I manually looked at yast2-ncurses. It was then I realised that ALL the software was being selected for the x86_64 option and not the i586 option?! So what, this thing thinks I have a multi-processor 64 bit system?! Well I don't! Is there someway to force an install of the i586 version of kernel/software. Without yast2-ncurses, I just don't have enough expertise to fix all this from the command line alone - and, in any case, I want the right version of the install on my machine. Any help greatly appreciated. Paul.
On 10/13/05, Paul Trevethan
The machine is P4 3.0GHz, with 200Gb SATA hard drive, PCIExpress 6600 graphics card and a Syncmaster 713N (17") lcd monitor. I have a separate
So, I tried running sax2 from init 3 and it will not load. Tried yast and that's when I realised I had no yast2-ncurses at all. I then checked and noticed it had given me the smp kernel??? I don't have multi-processor capability.
If your processor has Hyperthreading enabled, it will use smp kernel.
On 2nd try, in package selection, I manually looked at yast2-ncurses. It was then I realised that ALL the software was being selected for the x86_64 option and not the i586 option?!
So what, this thing thinks I have a multi-processor 64 bit system?! Well I don't!
Any help greatly appreciated. Paul.
Maybe something in the options of the installer were not correct, try to reinstall, and take a look at the options. -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
Paul Trevethan wrote:
The machine is P4 3.0GHz, with 200Gb SATA hard drive, PCIExpress 6600 graphics card and a Syncmaster 713N (17") lcd monitor. I have a separate partition set aside for a fresh install. During install I divide it up into / and /home mount points, formatted with Reiserfs.
We also have a P4 3.0 GHz. If my memory serves me correct we bought it because it is a dual core 64bit processor.
Using dvd, I select software (I put Gnome and KDE on to start) and everything proceeded ok.
On 9.3 the DVD will automatically install 64bit if it thinks it is a 64bit processor - which is normally quite accurate.
Is there someway to force an install of the i586 version of kernel/software. Without yast2-ncurses, I just don't have enough expertise to fix all this from the command line alone - and, in any case, I want the right version of the install on my machine.
The easiest is to install from the CD's. The DVD contain the 64bit and 32bit versions. The CD's only the 32bit version. Hope it helps Albert -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.14/131 - Release Date: 2005/10/12
On 13/10/05, Albert
Paul Trevethan wrote:
The machine is P4 3.0GHz, with 200Gb SATA hard drive, PCIExpress 6600 graphics card and a Syncmaster 713N (17") lcd monitor. I have a separate partition set aside for a fresh install. During install I divide it up into / and /home mount points, formatted with Reiserfs.
We also have a P4 3.0 GHz. If my memory serves me correct we bought it because it is a dual core 64bit processor.
Using dvd, I select software (I put Gnome and KDE on to start) and everything proceeded ok.
On 9.3 the DVD will automatically install 64bit if it thinks it is a 64bit processor - which is normally quite accurate.
Is there someway to force an install of the i586 version of kernel/software. Without yast2-ncurses, I just don't have enough expertise to fix all this from the command line alone - and, in any case, I want the right version of the install on my machine.
The easiest is to install from the CD's. The DVD contain the 64bit and 32bit versions. The CD's only the 32bit version.
Hope it helps
Albert
Or....silly as it may seem, try cleaning your DVD/CD drive. I've seen this sort of error happen with a dirty laser lens. Hey, I try to look for the easiest solution first :-) -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
Or....silly as it may seem, try cleaning your DVD/CD drive. I've seen this sort of error happen with a dirty laser lens. Hey, I try to look for the easiest solution first :-)
Under the heading of easy but silly solutions....I would get the md5 hash on the iso file and compare it to the one on the website. Everytime I've had weird shit like that going on the CD was the problem. P4 are not 64 bit. They're 32 bit. Did you download the 64 bit DVD? The DVD's for 10 are separate. One is for 64 bit processors and one is for 32 bit processors. I don't know why 64 bit stuff would be on the 32 bit DVD. Perhaps you've got the wrong disk? --andy
* Paul Trevethan
Is there someway to force an install of the i586 version of kernel/software. Without yast2-ncurses, I just don't have enough
OK, my 10.0 box isn;t in yt, but on the 9.X series, you could during boot of the install CD/DVD select to install the 32 or 64 bit version by hitting F5 (or F6 one of them) This is at the screen where you can choose between install, run from harddisk, memtest &c .. th grub menu Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone :+31-70.3.170.515 Global ICT manager Direct:+31-70.3.170.539 Fugro-Jason Fax :+31-70.3.170.511 gdenhollander@Fugro-Jason.com POBox 35 visit us at http://www.Fugro-Jason.com 2260 AA Leidschendam The Netherlands This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. This e-mail shall not be deemed binding unless confirmed in writing. If you have received it by mistake, please let us know by e-mail reply and delete it from your system; you may not copy this message or disclose its contents to anyone. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.
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