5 Jul
2005
5 Jul
'05
18:40
On Saturday 18 June 2005 12:03 pm, Paul Alfille wrote:
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 As I noted in another thread. The problem was with the BIOS -- an upgrade fixed the problem. ASUS did not get high marks for Linux support or quality control.