At 01:45 AM 5/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
EIDE selections, with the rest all SCSI. What happened to my "sbpcd" option I expected? Of course, when I select any EIDE option, Linux says it can't find my CD-ROM.
Seems like you're overlooking the obvious. Start the install from the boot disk. Once language, color and keyboard are selected the next set of choices includes cdrom with sbpcd prominantly ther (might be on secind page of cdrom choices). It worked like a charm on a rather ancient machine with a first gen. sbpcd. Regards, Stu
Obvious? I am supposed to be able to install from CD-ROM, according to the SuSE manual. And I was able to do so with Slackware, and Red Hat. The whole reason I got the CD-ROM--in particular, SuSE 5.2--was to avoid older, more tedious installation methods. Else I may as well have FTP-downloaded the OS myself...and not paid $50 for the "convenience".
Doesn't it seem strange to you that my sbpcd CD-ROM does not show up on the list...or an "autoprobe" option? On the CD-ROM install, once I select language, color and keyboard, I am presented with this list of CD-ROM types...minus the one I need. This has never occurred to me, when I installed RedHat and Slackware. I don't see anything obvious about this situation...instead, I find it downright absurd.
Look Dude, Maybe you should stick with RH or Slackware... It seems as if you are more familiar with their installation processes that with SuSE... If you don't like SuSE, then don't use it... SuSE has a lot to offer a computer and is the EASIEST of any distribution I've installed... I did do some reading the first time, because I didn't expect everything to be the same as RH/Caldera/Slackware... Jonathan -- =========== =========== Jonathan Paul Cowherd jpcowh01@slug.louisville.edu <A HREF="http://www.slug.louisville.edu/~jpcowh01"><A HREF="http://www.slug.louisville.edu/~jpcowh01</A">http://www.slug.louisville.edu/~jpcowh01</A</A>> This is my world and I am... World Leader Pretend =========== =========== -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e