Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

["Stuart Powell" <SPowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, everyone.

I am having trouble getting a recent Linux distro to install on a
Compaq Proliant 1600.  It has 2xPIII-500/512MB/SA221/3x9GB/RAID5.  My
ultimate goal is to install Mandrake 9.1 on it, as that is what the
developers for Qmail-Toaster recommend.  

I have done a search for this problem, and have found that older
Linices seem to be OK on this platform, but newer versions seem prone to
failures during installation.  So far, I have tried RedHat7.2, which
worked just fine, and SuSE8.0, SuSE8.2 and Mandrake9.1, all of which
fail.  I am willing to try SuSE7.3, but would like a newer distro if
possible.  Does anyone know for certain why these newer distros seem to
be incompatible with the Proliant 1600 when the older distros appear to
work OK ?

Thanks,
Stuart.