On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 09:15 -0500, Regis Matejcik wrote:
I'm trying to install SUSE 9.2 Professional on a friends computer - Compaq Presario, 660mghz, 128K ram, 15gig hard drive.
The original system hard drive crashed and I installed a new hard drive, since my friend had none of the original Windows system cd's, I told her I could install SUSE and it should work fine for her use - Web browsing, email, and light word processing. I also bragged a bit about SUSE not crashing and getting overrun with viruses and such.
For my own information I booted the system with a Knoppix disc after I installed the new hard drive and it booted fine and recognized the new drive - so I figured I hadn't made any bone head install mistakes (jumper settings and such.)
Then when I put in the first SUSE disk, the SUSE splash screen displays, then the install option screen displays, (I chose, install from CD) then the detail scrolls right up to the line, "starting YAST".
Then instead of seeing the YAST screen, the display just runs a very dim diagonal static.
Any ideas on what might be causing this?
Could you also supply the make/model of the graphics card? You might also try using a little more ram, even if it is only for the install. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge