Clayton Cornell wrote:
I have a Toshiba 4010CDT (laptop) with 160 Mb RAM and a 4Gb drive. I am trying to install SuSE7.2 on it with absolutely no success. For some unknown reason I cannot get it to boot the CDROM even though there is a setting in the laptop's BIOS to boot CDROMs. No big problem though - I should be able to use the floppies. I boot it with the floppy disk. It starts up as expected, asks for the modules disk, and then starts loading from the CDROM. It looks for the display, and then loads the first YAST2 screen. It stops dead at this point.... no errors, nothing... I thought maybe it was still autodetecting and left it for an hour... nothing. Repeated reboots etc still ends up with the same result... a complete lockup.
Any ideas or suggestions? Anyone have a clue why it would lock up?
Apparently there is something in the laptop that yast2 just dosn't know how to handle. Boot from floppy with cdrom#1 in there, at the floppy boot prompt, enter "manual" and you will be able to install with yast1. At least you are lucky enough to have a cdrom and floppy on the laptop. My old laptop had "swapping cdrom and floppy", I could boot from cdrom, but it wouldn't let me load needed modules from cdrom; so I had to boot from floppy, and install via NFS with the cdrom in another machine. Good practice......................:-) NetZero Platinum No Banner Ads and Unlimited Access Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://www.netzero.net