Michael Staggs wrote:

On Sunday 07 November 2004 19:46, Sid Boyce wrote:

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Stick a floppy in the drive and it stops the complaining and the freeze, not really a freeze, but a loooong wait. This has been a SuSE feature since about 8.1 or 8.2. once it sees any floppy it's happy.

Thank you. I'll definately remember that next time around.

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I can't get 9.2 installed on the A7N8X-E mobo, it bdoesn't like my 9.1 drive and can't mount it. The 9.0 drive is fine, but I use that as backup for stuff on my other boxes. I can dive into VC 02 and manually mount it, but that doesn't help. I had the same problem on my x86_64 laptop, but after a few hours trying, something kicked it into life

What I ended up doing was installing onto another hard drive and then copying everything over to my SATA drive after install was complete (and I had replaced the kernel with a standard 2.6.9 kernel).

If it can't mount your drive, I'm guessing it's SATA as well?

That's the sad part, all drives here are IDE, but it doesn't seem to like ATA100 drives, somehow it eventually installed on the x86_64 laptop, but doesn't want to know on the A7N8X-E. Yesterday I bought an external enclosure with 1 USB 2.0 port and 2 firewire ports, installed a 120G drive, attached it to a USB 2.0 port on the x86_64 laptop, fdisk, mkreiserfs, mkswap, mounted it, swapon the swap partition and it's perfectly happy.

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That would hugely upset some of us who need the devel packages.

Well, that's the problem. They didn't include them at all on the cds. That's why I'm saying they should include another cd with the rest of the devel packages. Don't include a package and just leave out the devel package.

OK, I haven't been through the CD's. I understand that SuSE may think that by restricting the number of beta testers, they limit the amount of mail they have to deal with, but that leads to shipping a product that gets limited testing so that the problems start to appear in the shipped version. Mandrake on the other hand takes a different view and anyone can test their betas, leading to a less problematical general release. They don't have to reply to every report, they can ignore replying to any, just pay attention to the reports submitted in order to improve product quality. I was supposed to be on the beta list, but never received the invitation to download, otherwise, I may have hit this problem before release so they could have shipped something less problematical. They need to do a serious rethink. Pete was about to ship 9.2 back and ask for a refund, install Slackware on his main box instead as he has Slackware running on another box without problems, then he found that 9.2 installed once he had created a XP partition. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====