I am attempting to install SuSE Personal 7.3 on the following system: Asus SP97-V motherboard, 128K RAM, AMD K6-2/333 CPU, Diamond video card, and Maxtor 90340D2 3.4GB HD. This is a clean install. When running YaST2 install from CD-ROM #1 (1 of 3 CD-ROMs), all is fine through the automatic selection of partitions. All partitions are selected (root, extended, swap, and boot). LILO is installed on the boot sector. All is fine through this step, including the "Confirm Installtion" page. However, when YaST2 begins preparing the hard disk (showing writing and formatting the disk beginning with the swap partition) its progress is non-existent. No progress on the "graphical percentage bar" at all after over 45 minutes. The hard drive is being accessed at this time, as the hard drive light is on. Obviously, this part of the installation is quite dependent on hard drive capacity and processor speed -- but, absoluted no progress after almost an hour . . . this seems abnormal to me. Something appears to be very wrong. Interestingly, a clean install of Mandrake Linux 8.1 on the same machine went absolutely smooth as silk earlier with no glitches whatsoever. But, I would prefer to run SuSE!! In each case, I used fdisk to remove all partitions from the hard drive. The drive is without any partitions prior to the respective installations of Mandrake 8.1 and SuSE 7.3. Any ideas would be sincerely appreciated. Don Allen
I haven't used 7.3 yet, but I do have 7.2 and there were some install issues with Yast2. I think Yast2 suffers from a few serious bugs, but there are a couple of ways to bypass this problem. I've found that if I use the "Install Almost Everything" option, Yast2 does what you said - runs forever without installing anything. Instead, I ask Yast2 to do a basic install, which only takes about 10 minutes. If successful, then log in as root, fire up Yast (not Yast2, which anyway won't run if you haven't installed X), then ask it to install the GUI with StarOffice (takes about 30 minutes) - you should end up with X installed (and if not, run "sax" to set up X). Finally, if all is well, run Yast one more time and tell it to "Install Almost Everything." I know that sounds like a pain, but it's straightforward and has always worked for me. The other option is to install using Yast right from the beginning and ignore Yast2. That's actually a little bit messier in my opinion but Yast2 does a better job of setting up partitions for you, but anyway it should work. - Robert Storey On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 21:37:47 EST W9CW@aol.com wrote:
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 11:16 pm, Robert Storey wrote:
I've found that if I use the "Install Almost Everything" option, Yast2 does what you said - runs forever without installing anything. Instead, I ask
Strange, "install almost everything" worked here with 7.3 Professional, it took over an hour (Professional is 7 CDs worth.) but showed progress on the screen so I knew that it was working fine. and with 7.2 personal "Default Installation" without Office worked, and installed quickly. I think that if both of you continue to have problems with YAST2 then you should report this to SuSE technical assistence, support@suse.com, and to feedback@suse.com as a bug report. Since it works on some systems but not others, and this bug isn't documented, it could be that they are totally unaware of it and could use some debugging from log files and the like to fix it.
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