Hi Folks, I'm posting this on behalf of a friend. I'm not at all sure what could be giving rise to his problems. Can any of you suggest a diagnosis or a solution? Thanks, Ted. -----FW: <FEECIMEIALJBGPFBOPHBCEKPCAAA.philip.boardman@cwcom.net>----- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 13:30:03 -0000 From: buzz <philip.boardman@cwcom.net> To: Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk Subject: Please could you help, Problem installing SuSE Professional 7.0 my system, amdK7 - 800 duron, 512Mhz pc133 sdram, gigabyte 71 iex m/board, adaptec 2940 U2W scsi card, USR 56K, V int everything, ATI All in wonder 128 32 meg video card, soundblaster 64 gold, Pioneer scsi DVD rom drive NEC 24 x cdrom drive (scsi) Sony 32 x 8 x 4 cdr/rw rom drive std floppy drive 2x 4.5 gig U/W Scsi (formatted for dos, one with windows (spit)), and 1 x 2 gig W scsi (formatted for dos for images / Backup) 1 x 9 Gig U/W Scsi (wester digital - for Linux) when i start installation i have to load the module for the scsi card first otherwise the whole system is so tremendously slow throughout!, so i install the module for the scsi Via floppy then locate the cdrom for disk one of the install, it goes to yast, so i select the basic installation, with star office and common componants, when it starts to install the system hangs up (even if i leave it for hours) no matter if i install using yast 1 or yast 2, the outcome is still the same. very slow through out during the install then it hangs full stop, im not sure if it has to do with the scsi card? could you point me in the right direction, or put me in touch with someone who will be able to help me, as im trying to migrate to linux but have so many problems with it, if not then im sorry to caused you any inconveniance many thanks philip boardman --------------End of forwarded message------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 284 7749 Date: 01-Mar-01 Time: 16:35:44 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------