Per Jessen wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Now I cannot install v9.2. The install stops at the point where the partitions are either being formatted or at the point where this has been done and the software is about to be installed - I am not quite sure at which of these stages all activity stops. However, the computer is not locked-up because the mouse still works and the lill clock is still going round and round, ad finitum.
Which fileystems are you using? Do you see any messages if you switch to tty4 (with Alt-F4)?
Tried both- reiser and ext3.
I can re-install the 120GB HDs in the Main computer and 9.2 will install.
So it appears to be hardware - somehow.
So it seems, but where?
I can install the 250GB HDs in the second (Testing) computer and 9.2 installs there without a hitch.
Same hardware?
No. It's the computer I was using ~6 months ago and, of course, 9.2 installed/installs on that with little trouble. Interestingly, 9.2 also will not install on my wife's computer (which is different to either of my 2) but all other versions of SuSE (starting from 8.1) will install.
I can install 9.2 on the second computer with the 120Gb HDs then transfer these to the main computer and with a small "fiddle" 9.2 will run on the main computer.
Then install 9.2 on the 250Gb drives (RAID1?) using your 2nd computer, and then move the drives into your target computer. That'll achieve the objective, although not explain the problem.
Ah but you underestimate the intelligence of the new Novell SuSE. It is well aware of such cunning plans (which I already tried several days ago) by stopping dead as soon as the computer tries to boot into 9.2 .
I'd try installing 9.3 but getting it is an expense I cannot afford if it installs the same way as 9.2.
The only problem I've had with 9.3 (FTP version) was the lack of JFS support during installation and at boot-up.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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