On Thursday 13 October 2005 16:58, Paul Trevethan wrote:
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.
Hi, when you boot from your installation-DVD you've got the possibility to select the architecture. Press F2 for more options and select the right architecture and do a reinstall. Uli