16 Dec
2004
16 Dec
'04
18:50
Carl Hartung wrote:
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 12:15, James Knott wrote:
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Well, you are trying to install on a Packard Bell. Perhaps SuSE has higher standards, than those other distros. ;-)
My first thought was that SuSE could be employing more stringent pre-installation hardware detections & tests than the other distros.
If Knoppix reports the IDE CDRW & DVD drives as sr0 & sr1, maybe SuSE is balking at something in the firmware. Proprietary firmware isn't unusual in OEM equipment like PB, which is why I'd have tried a different drive... probably a generic CD reader instead of something RW.
But, then again, you could also be right; SuSE just has higher standards ;-)
- Carl
Did you try the diskette boot images on CD1? LeoR