Anyone with Suse 8-9.1 on Dell Laptop?
I'm having difficulty installing Suse 9.1 on a Dell CPI-a 366 XT laptop. I appear to be having memory problems, but I'm not sure. Has anyone with a similar configuration managed to install Suse 8-9.1 ? Thanks! --J.
I have a Dell Latitude D600 and it works like a charm on 9.1. I've gotten every single thing to work on my laptop (including docking, ACPI, fn-keys and the volume buttons on the keyboard) with the exception of my Smartcard reader (which O2Micro doesn't provide a driver for). I can't speak to the Dell CPI though, sorry. I have, however, done a lot in getting my latitude to work so I can maybe help you with some of your more specific issues. Does it fail to install completely or do you have problems after the install is completed? ______________________________ Justin Grote Network Architect, CCNA JWG Networks Email: nospam-justin@grote.name (remove nospam-) SMS: nospam-rastan@vtext.com (remove nospam-) Phone: (208) 631-5440 ------------------------------ Original Message Follows ------------------------------ JNSL> I'm having difficulty installing Suse 9.1 on a Dell CPI-a 366 XT JNSL> laptop. I appear to be having memory problems, but I'm not sure. Has JNSL> anyone with a similar configuration managed to install Suse 8-9.1 ? JNSL> Thanks! JNSL> --J.
Justin: I can't seem to get through the install for Suse 9.1. It is failing with everything from not finding Minix / Minix V2, ext2, fat filesystems on dev ramX to not being able to identify the CD ROM format (all of a sudden) -- it booted from the CD Rom... (Thanks!) Justin Grote wrote:
I have a Dell Latitude D600 and it works like a charm on 9.1. I've gotten every single thing to work on my laptop (including docking, ACPI, fn-keys and the volume buttons on the keyboard) with the exception of my Smartcard reader (which O2Micro doesn't provide a driver for).
I can't speak to the Dell CPI though, sorry. I have, however, done a lot in getting my latitude to work so I can maybe help you with some of your more specific issues.
Does it fail to install completely or do you have problems after the install is completed?
______________________________ Justin Grote Network Architect, CCNA JWG Networks Email: nospam-justin@grote.name (remove nospam-) SMS: nospam-rastan@vtext.com (remove nospam-) Phone: (208) 631-5440
------------------------------ Original Message Follows ------------------------------ JNSL> I'm having difficulty installing Suse 9.1 on a Dell CPI-a 366 XT JNSL> laptop. I appear to be having memory problems, but I'm not sure. Has JNSL> anyone with a similar configuration managed to install Suse 8-9.1 ?
JNSL> Thanks!
JNSL> --J.
On Saturday 07 August 2004 11:15 am, J.N. SUsE Lists wrote:
Justin:
I can't seem to get through the install for Suse 9.1. It is failing with everything from not finding Minix / Minix V2, ext2, fat filesystems on dev ramX to not being able to identify the CD ROM format (all of a sudden) -- it booted from the CD Rom...
(Thanks!)
I recently put 9.1 on a Dell 1150 and it works better than the POS WinXP, especially the wireless stuff. I suggest you give a look at LinuxQuestions.org first. I found some answers there about the Dell video problems. Another thing I did was use a Knoppix cd to boot up and see if everything worked ok. For some reason Knoppix seems to be able to search out and use all the hardware a bit better than the SuSE iso although I prefer SuSE Pro for installation, etc. And I assume you tried the safe install and as a last resort the manual installation. RA
Actually, I've tried the manual installation -- it dies when it searches for an info file. Fedora core2 seems to go right into install. I'm not overly happy with settling for Fedora, though; I wanted to avoid any potential confusion around OpenSSH / LSH, etc, and I'm very happy with suse's yast (and similar proprietary utilities) implementation. I've never tried core2, however, so maybe it won't be so bad...
On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 16:08:36 -0500
"J.N. SUsE Lists"
Actually, I've tried the manual installation -- it dies when it searches for an info file. Fedora core2 seems to go right into install. I'm not overly happy with settling for Fedora, though; I wanted to avoid any potential confusion around OpenSSH / LSH, etc, and I'm very happy with suse's yast (and similar proprietary utilities) implementation.
Just noticed this- I've had no problem with re-sizing a M$ 2000 (Dell laptop) when Windoze refused to boot. Having re-sized and repartitioned the drive I then installed 9.1. No problems. Contact me directly if you want more details. HTH Terence
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