I hope I'm not creating a major flame war here, but I've never heard such a theory proposed before. In fact I'd go as to say it's a little absurd. I see no reason to be using such ridiculuous theories to blame a software (or faulty software operation with certain hardware) problem on hardware designs (designs that have been fine-tuned over a number of years with no such temperature problems). On 09-Sep-00 Niels Stenhøj wrote:
IMHO this is not a specific SuSE problem. This can happen to W95, W98 and 2000 as well. I've found that it's a hardware problem.
Working temperature. -------------------
Your machine must reach working temperature before booting, installing, partitioning, formatting etc. What we are talking about is the fact that the coefficient of expansion is not the same for the phycical disks as for the arms carrying the RW heads of your harddisk. Any misalignment of the tracks during the installation or boot process can cause the system to hang. In Windoze a symptom is a message of failure to access the registry. In SuSE it may be a failure to start Samba or another module.
If complying with the rule of letting the machine reach working temperatures before actually starting saves you for a lot of problems. To accomplish this press Del to enter the BIOS menu. after a couple of minutes, press Ctrl Alt Del to start the machine.
Installation on a clean hard disk. ---------------------------------
"And no man putteth new wine into old bottles."
I admit that despite complying to the above rules, installation failures may still occur. To me this happens if I try to install a new system on top of a hard disk which only has had its master boot record erased. So I overwrite the intire disk using the OnTrack disk utility (for Quantum zerofill.exe) remembering to let the machine reach working temperature before starting this utility. Then I partition and format the disk and finally I press Ctrl Alt Del to let the CD-1 boot and start the installation process. I also remember to manually select partitions without formatting. This way, Yast2 works brilliantly. If you feel sorry to (re)configure too much because of this new and virginal installation, you may wish to have a look at the back up, that you, of course, remembered to burn before even thinking of installing a new SuSE release. Else you may be lucky to find that a new release has resolved sources of irritation.
With regards,
Niels
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