9.3 won't install on Athlon64 with SATA

18 Jun 2005

      Very frustrating. SuSE 9.3 is far too slow on my old machine (PentiumII-500) 
so I purchased an Athlon64 machine

(Asus A8V-E motherboard, SATA hard drive, blue trim, pretty lights, ... )

Cannot install SuSE 9.3 from the DVD or CD media).

General problem seems to be "locating info file" and a hang.

Googling suggests problems with SATA and AMD64 combination. I tried
disabling SATA mode, but get a non-helpful "Installation error".

Novell's site is hopeless. SuSE only talks about SATA for 9.0.

Any suggestions?

Paul Alfille