On Sunday 27 August 2006 17:34, Peter Van Lone wrote:
1)at this point in the install, am I supposed to remove the cd and boot from the hard disk, or, is the installation supposed to pick up where it left off after booting to the cd? And, why oh why does the installer not SAY whether to remove the cd?
It is supposed to boot from the hard drive at that point. Even if the bios says to boot from the CD, it will detect the installed SUSE and, boot it if you keep your hands off. It does not say to remove the cd because it is not necessary, and it will be using it after it gets booted. Further, if it does fail you already have the cd in there to do recovery.
2)Is this likely a driver issue with the sata disks? If so, is there a procedure for inserting the correct drivers during the install (I see the F5 "driver" menu option, but I'm not sure what to do with it)?
Sata is pretty standard, and SuSE detects them just fine. You can always press F5 and insert a driver disk, if you have one, and if it has linux drivers on it, but this seems highly unlikely that you will have such. The drivers in question are for the controller, not specifically the disk. What install options did you choose when asked where to install the boot loader? Did you take all the defaults? Check the hardware compatibility list for your controller. Basically my experience is that its almost impossible to find a IDE or SATA drive that does NOT work with linux. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen