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[Boris Epstein <borepstein@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Regis Matejcik
<rm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm trying to stall Suse 11.1-x86_64 on a Dell laptop, turion 64, 120g
> hard drive, 2 gig ram.
>
> The install seems to go normally, then during the "Automatic
> Configuration" portion of the "initial boot", it gets to 16% complete
> and a dialog box that says "YAST2 - Detecting network cards" It freezes
> there, and eventually dies.
>
> When I re-start the computer it says that the previous installation
> failed and asks if I want to continue.  When I continue, it repeats the
> sequence previously mentioned.
>
> Any thoughts on a way to work around this ?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Regis Matejcik
> Crescent Construction Company
> www.CrescentConstruction.com
>
>
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The first thing that comes to mind is that perhaps your configuration
is non-standard enough to confuse the installation utility. Perhaps
you should disable the auto configuration. Try that - it is a bit more
work, but it's not too bad.

Boris.
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