On Thursday 02 August 2001 01:48, Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:

* Argentium G. Tiger [Aug 01. 2001 16:38]:

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I've got a SuSE 7.2 install starting from the boot floppy disk. The 7.2 files will be installed via FTP.

The boot procedure halts on this first diskette at this point:

Starting Hardware Detection...

...

usb.3: read info

After that, it just hangs.

The hardware is an iWill DBS-100 dual Pentium III 450 MHz machine, with one 256 Meg SDRam DIMM, an ISA Intel network card, two PCI Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 network cards, an ISA Soundblaster AWE32 with WaveBlaster daughter card, and a Diamond Stealth PCI video card.

In the bios, I've disabled the Bios Keyboard, COM1:, COM2:, and LPT1: to free up some interrupts.

I didn't see anything in the bios to specify USB services in general.

Any ideas anyone?

Try manual installation. And if it continues, try manual installation with YaST1.

This may be a silly question, but I have to ask it: how do you get a manual installation with suse without yast1? What's used instead? What do you type at the boot prompt? Anders