Roland Hill wrote:
Hi List,
Well Santa dropped off 9.2 Pro for me which was great!
Tried to install it along side my 8.2 Pro setup, but after 2 hours of letting Yast churn, I gave up.
The system is a P4 1.7GHz desktop. I disabled APM and ACPI in the BIOS, and also tried the install without ACPI option. Still very slow.
Can anyone here offer any pointers?
As much as I'd like an excuse to buy new hardware, I'm not quite ready to go down this path just yet.
9.2 can be a dog to install, once installed, it's solid. You didn't say where exactly it hangs or if there are any messages. One of the VT's, may be VT4 should also display some messages - I'm guessing it hangs after saying Starting YaST. It certainly sounds like a hang, perhaps trying a non-graphical install as another angle is advised. Your luck won't necessarily change with new hardware, your hardware isn't anything unusual. I had big problems with an XP3000+/512M, XP3000+ x86_64 laptop, but a P-II/333/64M laptop breezed it with a non-graphical install as there wasn't enough video memory (only 2Meg), X came up just fine and it's quite responsive using Windowmaker. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====