Having serious problems getting SuSE on this box. Tried compatible mode for ide too At some point during install it just hangs big time. I would very much like to hear about success-stories, bios-settings and hardware-setup's. Johan
I have installed SuSE 8.2 on two systems using these boards. The only problem I found was that the network driver chosen by yast for the on-board network chip was wrong. You have to use the sk98lin driver from syskonnect (misplaced the URL at the moment but you should be able to google it). I didn't try SuSE 9.0 on these two boxes, yet, as they are mission-critical. You didn't mention what kind of install you were trying to do. If it is from CD I would expect it to work. If it is a network install that would obvioulsy suffer from the non-functional driver that yast is trying to install. HTH, Alex. On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Johan wrote:
Having serious problems getting SuSE on this box.
Tried compatible mode for ide too
At some point during install it just hangs big time.
I would very much like to hear about success-stories, bios-settings and hardware-setup's.
Johan
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Sorry, just tried an ordinary installation from CD to a IDE drive that I added Else the setup is like this. 1 P4C800-E Deluxe, Intel i875P, DDR400, SATA, FireWire, Gigabit LAN 1 Pentium 4 Prescott 2.8GHz FSB800, 1MB Cache (Socket 478) 1GB Dual 512MB DDR550 (PC4400) 1 Millennium P650, 64 DDR, DualHead, AGPx4, Bulk 2 SATA Drive('s) Western Digital WD2500JD 250GB Digital doc5+ fan-control and temperature messurement http://www.studiedata.dk/productlist.asp?Fane=COLD,COBL NorthQ 4100 ATX-Power Supply 500Watt, Lownoise 12 db, Temp. Auto Control Thermal Right SP-94 kobberkøleprofil - http://www.studiedata.dk/productitem.asp?id=ACTR005&Fane=COLD,COHS 1 92mm model "F2" Zalman-fan 1 Digital doc5+ fan-control and temperature messurement - http://www.studiedata.dk/productitem.asp?id=MCMP021&Fane=COLD,COBL 1 Chieftec - Maxitower, DA-01BL-D Dragon, Bigtower Blue, Exchanged the Matrox Graphics card with a "basic" VGA card of af a sort for the moment. Johan Mandag 29 marts 2004 19:14 skrev Alex Angerhofer:
I have installed SuSE 8.2 on two systems using these boards. The only problem I found was that the network driver chosen by yast for the on-board network chip was wrong. You have to use the sk98lin driver from syskonnect (misplaced the URL at the moment but you should be able to google it). I didn't try SuSE 9.0 on these two boxes, yet, as they are mission-critical. You didn't mention what kind of install you were trying to do. If it is from CD I would expect it to work. If it is a network install that would obvioulsy suffer from the non-functional driver that yast is trying to install.
HTH, Alex.
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Johan wrote:
Having serious problems getting SuSE on this box.
Tried compatible mode for ide too
At some point during install it just hangs big time.
I would very much like to hear about success-stories, bios-settings and hardware-setup's.
Johan
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On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 yep@osterbo-net.dk wrote:
Sorry, just tried an ordinary installation from CD to a IDE drive that I added
Okay. Can't be the network chip then.
Else the setup is like this.
1 P4C800-E Deluxe, Intel i875P, DDR400, SATA, FireWire, Gigabit LAN 1 Pentium 4 Prescott 2.8GHz FSB800, 1MB Cache (Socket 478) 1GB Dual 512MB DDR550 (PC4400) 1 Millennium P650, 64 DDR, DualHead, AGPx4, Bulk 2 SATA Drive('s) Western Digital WD2500JD 250GB Digital doc5+ fan-control and temperature messurement http://www.studiedata.dk/productlist.asp?Fane=COLD,COBL NorthQ 4100 ATX-Power Supply 500Watt, Lownoise 12 db, Temp. Auto Control Thermal Right SP-94 kobberk�leprofil - http://www.studiedata.dk/productitem.asp?id=ACTR005&Fane=COLD,COHS 1 92mm model "F2" Zalman-fan 1 Digital doc5+ fan-control and temperature messurement - http://www.studiedata.dk/productitem.asp?id=MCMP021&Fane=COLD,COBL 1 Chieftec - Maxitower, DA-01BL-D Dragon, Bigtower Blue,
Exchanged the Matrox Graphics card with a "basic" VGA card of af a sort for the moment.
Johan
Can you tell us at what point the install hangs? Your disks are of course recognized correctly by the BIOS? Did you try the safe settings or the manual install option, yet? Which IDE channel to you have your CDROM set to and what make is it? Best regards, Alex.
Mandag 29 marts 2004 19:58 skrev Alex Angerhofer:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 yep@osterbo-net.dk wrote:
Sorry, just tried an ordinary installation from CD to a IDE drive that I added
Okay. Can't be the network chip then.
Else the setup is like this.
1 P4C800-E Deluxe, Intel i875P, DDR400, SATA, FireWire, Gigabit LAN 1 Pentium 4 Prescott 2.8GHz FSB800, 1MB Cache (Socket 478) 1GB Dual 512MB DDR550 (PC4400) 1 Millennium P650, 64 DDR, DualHead, AGPx4, Bulk 2 SATA Drive('s) Western Digital WD2500JD 250GB Digital doc5+ fan-control and temperature messurement http://www.studiedata.dk/productlist.asp?Fane=COLD,COBL NorthQ 4100 ATX-Power Supply 500Watt, Lownoise 12 db, Temp. Auto Control Thermal Right SP-94 kobberkøleprofil - http://www.studiedata.dk/productitem.asp?id=ACTR005&Fane=COLD,COHS 1 92mm model "F2" Zalman-fan 1 Digital doc5+ fan-control and temperature messurement - http://www.studiedata.dk/productitem.asp?id=MCMP021&Fane=COLD,COBL 1 Chieftec - Maxitower, DA-01BL-D Dragon, Bigtower Blue,
Exchanged the Matrox Graphics card with a "basic" VGA card of af a sort for the moment.
Johan
Can you tell us at what point the install hangs? Your disks are of course recognized correctly by the BIOS? Did you try the safe settings or the manual install option, yet? Which IDE channel to you have your CDROM set to and what make is it?
Best regards, Alex.
Forgot to mention the DVD Drive (have to install from something right) Oh it hangs around making the selections - Partition setup - during installation of packeages Could it be that the "old" IDE-harddrive that isn't what it was supposed to be anymore !! (IBM). Did run all the HD-tests from IBM though and it passed. I have another spare IBM IDE harddrive around I could try out (not to healthy though). But could give it a spin (have to test with their tools first though) Johan
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Johan wrote:
Mandag 29 marts 2004 19:58 skrev Alex Angerhofer:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 yep@osterbo-net.dk wrote:
Sorry, just tried an ordinary installation from CD to a IDE drive that I added
Okay. Can't be the network chip then.
Else the setup is like this.
1 P4C800-E Deluxe, Intel i875P, DDR400, SATA, FireWire, Gigabit LAN 1 Pentium 4 Prescott 2.8GHz FSB800, 1MB Cache (Socket 478) 1GB Dual 512MB DDR550 (PC4400) 1 Millennium P650, 64 DDR, DualHead, AGPx4, Bulk 2 SATA Drive('s) Western Digital WD2500JD 250GB Digital doc5+ fan-control and temperature messurement http://www.studiedata.dk/productlist.asp?Fane=COLD,COBL NorthQ 4100 ATX-Power Supply 500Watt, Lownoise 12 db, Temp. Auto Control Thermal Right SP-94 kobberk�leprofil - http://www.studiedata.dk/productitem.asp?id=ACTR005&Fane=COLD,COHS 1 92mm model "F2" Zalman-fan 1 Digital doc5+ fan-control and temperature messurement - http://www.studiedata.dk/productitem.asp?id=MCMP021&Fane=COLD,COBL 1 Chieftec - Maxitower, DA-01BL-D Dragon, Bigtower Blue,
Exchanged the Matrox Graphics card with a "basic" VGA card of af a sort for the moment.
Johan
Can you tell us at what point the install hangs? Your disks are of course recognized correctly by the BIOS? Did you try the safe settings or the manual install option, yet? Which IDE channel to you have your CDROM set to and what make is it?
Best regards, Alex.
Forgot to mention the DVD Drive (have to install from something right)
I had issues with my new DVD burner/reader in installing 9.0 on my home system (not a P4C800 but a rather old Abit mobo). The only way it worked was to hang it on the slave of the first IDE channel. I am not saying that this is necessarily your problem, but it might be something to check.
Oh it hangs around making the selections - Partition setup - during installation of packeages
Well if it hangs on setting up the partition one would think it has to do with the drives.
Could it be that the "old" IDE-harddrive that isn't what it was supposed to be anymore !! (IBM). Did run all the HD-tests from IBM though and it passed.
Do you need that drive in the box at all? If I understand you correctly you have two new WD drives set up and you were planning to install on one of them? In order to identify the problem more closely you might want to go to a minimal setup, i.e., just one hard drive, and the DVD drive. HTH, Alex.
Mandag 29 marts 2004 20:50 skrev Alex Angerhofer:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Johan wrote:
Mandag 29 marts 2004 19:58 skrev Alex Angerhofer:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 yep@osterbo-net.dk wrote:
Sorry, just tried an ordinary installation from CD to a IDE drive that I added
Okay. Can't be the network chip then.
Else the setup is like this.
1 P4C800-E Deluxe, Intel i875P, DDR400, SATA, FireWire, Gigabit LAN 1 Pentium 4 Prescott 2.8GHz FSB800, 1MB Cache (Socket 478) 1GB Dual 512MB DDR550 (PC4400) 1 Millennium P650, 64 DDR, DualHead, AGPx4, Bulk 2 SATA Drive('s) Western Digital WD2500JD 250GB Digital doc5+ fan-control and temperature messurement http://www.studiedata.dk/productlist.asp?Fane=COLD,COBL NorthQ 4100 ATX-Power Supply 500Watt, Lownoise 12 db, Temp. Auto Control Thermal Right SP-94 kobberkøleprofil - http://www.studiedata.dk/productitem.asp?id=ACTR005&Fane=COLD,COHS 1 92mm model "F2" Zalman-fan 1 Digital doc5+ fan-control and temperature messurement - http://www.studiedata.dk/productitem.asp?id=MCMP021&Fane=COLD,COBL 1 Chieftec - Maxitower, DA-01BL-D Dragon, Bigtower Blue,
Exchanged the Matrox Graphics card with a "basic" VGA card of af a sort for the moment.
Johan
Can you tell us at what point the install hangs? Your disks are of course recognized correctly by the BIOS? Did you try the safe settings or the manual install option, yet? Which IDE channel to you have your CDROM set to and what make is it?
Best regards, Alex.
Forgot to mention the DVD Drive (have to install from something right)
I had issues with my new DVD burner/reader in installing 9.0 on my home system (not a P4C800 but a rather old Abit mobo). The only way it worked was to hang it on the slave of the first IDE channel. I am not saying that this is necessarily your problem, but it might be something to check.
Oh it hangs around making the selections - Partition setup - during installation of packeages
Well if it hangs on setting up the partition one would think it has to do with the drives.
Could it be that the "old" IDE-harddrive that isn't what it was supposed to be anymore !! (IBM). Did run all the HD-tests from IBM though and it passed.
Do you need that drive in the box at all? If I understand you correctly you have two new WD drives set up and you were planning to install on one of them? In order to identify the problem more closely you might want to go to a minimal setup, i.e., just one hard drive, and the DVD drive.
The DVD drive (Liteon 812S) is only used to boot the thing for now. I'm still looking forward to the Patch-CD for ix86 systems to be able to utilize enhanced mode for the SATA drives. http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/01/sata.html No don't need the IDE based drive, but I've read about problems with SATA-based drives !! But I'll unplug the IDE-based drive and give it a go :-) Think I allready tried that can't remember if I tested that yet. (embarresing ;-) )
HTH, Alex.
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 14:46, Johan wrote:
The DVD drive (Liteon 812S) is only used to boot the thing for now.
We've had SuSE 9.0 installation issues with DVD players. SuSE is apparently very fussy about this hardware. In one case, the DVD player couldn't read the application packgage selection from the SuSE DVD. In another situation, the installation would die after some amount of the files had been copied to the hard disc. In both cases, replacing the DVD drive with a name brand solved the problem. The name brand we used was Plextor, but we've used other brands as well (not Liteon, however, so I can't say...) Hope this is helpful... Mark -- _____________________________________________________________ A Message From L. Mark Stone President Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04107 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com
Mandag 29 marts 2004 22:01 skrev L. Mark Stone:
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 14:46, Johan wrote:
The DVD drive (Liteon 812S) is only used to boot the thing for now.
We've had SuSE 9.0 installation issues with DVD players. SuSE is apparently very fussy about this hardware. In one case, the DVD player couldn't read the application packgage selection from the SuSE DVD. In another situation, the installation would die after some amount of the files had been copied to the hard disc.
In both cases, replacing the DVD drive with a name brand solved the problem. The name brand we used was Plextor, but we've used other brands as well (not Liteon, however, so I can't say...)
Hope this is helpful...
Mark
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Well could be - and thanks for your tips on that issue. Will take a DVD or CD drive from another PC and try that out too. Just a note: I have installed SuSE 9.0 on another PC/DVD-drive, but I'll have a look at that oprion ;-) ___________________________________________________________
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A beta release of Mandrake does the job at the moment. So at least I got the opportunity to explore comming features etc. Johan Mandag 29 marts 2004 22:13 skrev Johan:
Mandag 29 marts 2004 22:01 skrev L. Mark Stone:
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 14:46, Johan wrote:
The DVD drive (Liteon 812S) is only used to boot the thing for now.
We've had SuSE 9.0 installation issues with DVD players. SuSE is apparently very fussy about this hardware. In one case, the DVD player couldn't read the application packgage selection from the SuSE DVD. In another situation, the installation would die after some amount of the files had been copied to the hard disc.
In both cases, replacing the DVD drive with a name brand solved the problem. The name brand we used was Plextor, but we've used other brands as well (not Liteon, however, so I can't say...)
Hope this is helpful...
Mark
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Well could be - and thanks for your tips on that issue.
Will take a DVD or CD drive from another PC and try that out too.
Just a note: I have installed SuSE 9.0 on another PC/DVD-drive, but I'll have a look at that oprion ;-)
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A Message From L. Mark Stone
President Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04107
Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com
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