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Just before I seek counselling can anyone help? I have a server, which I bought specifically to run SuSE linux on with the following configuration: AMD K7 Athlon processor 700MHz 512 MB 100MHz SDRAM Dimms S3 Trio graphics card 3com 905 network card 2x Maxtor UDMA 66 13Gb Hard disks 1x Maxtor UDMA 33 9Gb Hard Disk However, the system (using YaST2 or the eminently superior Yast1) will not install on anything but the first 1.5Gb of /dev/hda and only then by resetting the system every time it locks, and rebuilding the rpm database, starting YaST and taking it up where we left off. Needless to say, this is not what should happen! The only way we can get it thusfar is by entering the kernel line: linux mem=510M hda=1661,255,63 hdb=1661,255,63 hdc=1245,255,63 hdd=cdrom I spent a day trawling through the sdb, deja.com and linux.com, and everybody is sure that the athlon now works fine with 6.3 (I had the mtrr problem with 6.2 and thus upgraded). Also can anyone explain what Bad Magic is? Thanks for your time. -- John Reynolds -- 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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John Reynolds wrote:
Just before I seek counselling can anyone help?
I have a server, which I bought specifically to run SuSE linux on with the following configuration:
AMD K7 Athlon processor 700MHz 512 MB 100MHz SDRAM Dimms S3 Trio graphics card 3com 905 network card 2x Maxtor UDMA 66 13Gb Hard disks 1x Maxtor UDMA 33 9Gb Hard Disk
However, the system (using YaST2 or the eminently superior Yast1) will not install on anything but the first 1.5Gb of /dev/hda and only then by resetting the system every time it locks, and rebuilding the rpm database, starting YaST and taking it up where we left off. Needless to say, this is not what should happen!
Sounds like a pretty potent system you've got there! Have you considered making a smallish root partition (maybe 1GB in your case), putting the principal top-level directories in other partitions (/usr, /home, /var, etc.), and then symlinking to them from your root directory? Then the issue of installing beyond the first 1GB won't come up. There are all these peculiarities about booting from partitions with more than 1024 sectors that I know exist but have avoided dealing with by using that strategy. Paul Abrahams -- 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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