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/