Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (380 mails)

[francisco.vegas@xxxxxxx]

Hy,

>> I'am back to report my experiences by installing Suse 9 AMD64 on
>> my K8V deluxe with two 1614c drives system ...

>What exactly are you doing?  With which disk are you booting?


Per first, I'am booting from the ISO CD ...

OK, a little summary from my experiences from the last few weeks ...

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1.          I booted with the Original Suse DVD ...
Result:           No installation possible with SATA
Decision:   Prepare the new ISO CD
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2.          I booted with the new ISO CD with idle=poll
Result:           I achieved YAST but no recognition of SATA
Decision:   Try this rcLinux menu and select SATA driver
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3.          I select the VIA SATA Driver from rcLinux and boot
Result:           Now YAST did recognize my drives, but going on in the
installation
            process with the SUSE proposal  is not possible. Also manual
            config of the drive leads to the same message. This message
            indicates, that there is a modification needed before the
install
            process can go on ...
Decision:   Any ideas ... ?
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I don´t know if the problem is in partitioning my drive. As I formerly
said: I've got
two Samsung Spinpoint 1614c 160 GB SATA drives. Both are partitioned in
each
two partitions.
C:    WinXP       NTFS        ~75 GB
F:    empty       FAT32       ~75 GB
G:    empty       FAT32       ~75 GB
H:    empty       FAT32       ~75 GB

As you may see, I obviously have no problem in reserving a whole drive for
Linux.
I also have no technical explanation, but I think changing the partition
data will
not solve my problem ...

What do you think ?
Any comments will be appreciated !!!!!

Regards
Francisco