I am trying, with no succes, to install SuSe 6.1 on an old 486 -DX2. Made the boot disk, boots ok with the disk, step through the menus to start installation. it mounts the CD ok. Loads something to ramdisk. Loads Yast, Yast then bombs out with "An Error has occurred during install". Repeated attempts all give the same result, even copied install CD to hard disk and tried install from dos partition - same result. As a final test on the hardware installed Win95 - it installed with no problems. fdisk'ed the hard drive, reformatted, tried SuSe Linux again, I get to the point where Yast installs from CD and it repeatedly bombs out with same error ( no indication what the error is). This is all with the Eval Cd of SuSe 6.1 which I have used it since to install to a Pentium 266 - intall went perfectly. NB I had the same install fatal error occur on an old 386, which is why I acquired the the 486 DX2 to install SuSe Linux. Imagine my dissapointment when same thing happens. What can I do to get SuSe installed on the 486? I'm stumped. Any gelp pointers/ greatly appreciated TIA. -- Cheers, Kenny Shields Home: kenny@skirza.fsnet.co.uk Work: kenny.shields@norscot.co.uk -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
At 12:28 04/21/2000 +0100, you wrote:
I am trying, with no succes, to install SuSe 6.1 on an old 486 -DX2.
... I had the exact same problem installing 6.1 on a dual pentium 200 machine I have. Nomatter what I tried, I couldn't get the install to succeed. I kept getting bizarre errors during the install of packages with machine lockup, and it was always at different packages. I never did find out whether this was 6.1, or whether it was the problematic micropolis full height 9 git scsi drives I had (They worked with windows, but seemed to be just flakey enough to give the 6.1 installer fits). By the time 6.2 came out I had switched to a different machine. When 6.3 came out, I tried it on the old dual pentium 200 using IDE drives for booting, and one of the old SCSI 9 gigs as a /pub directory. It's running wonderfully, no problems to report. Given what you wrote about your experience, and how your problems so closely mirrored mine, I'm suspecting that 6.1 might have had some kind of i/o driver problem somewhere that only surfaced with certain chipsets. If you have access to the 6.3 evaluation cd, I'd give that a try. Hope this helped, Argentium -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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