I'm afraid not. The one that succeeded had 196 Mb RAM; one that failed also had 196 Mb and the other had 128 Mb. I tried bumping one of the failures up to 320 Mb, but it still didn't work. I know the memory is good, as this box has been housing a production system for nearly six months. Chris St. Pierre Unix Systems Administrator Nebraska Wesleyan University On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Marlier, Ian wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Chris St. Pierre [mailto:stpierre@NebrWesleyan.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:33 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] SuSE 10 freezes during installation
We have a lot of older Dell OptiPlex GX1's lying around that we use for text boxes, miscellaneous small servers, etc. Most are around 450-550 Ghz, 128-256 Mb RAM, etc. We've discovered that, on some of these boxes, the SuSE 10 install procedures fail and freeze the box. It will first freeze when the machine reboots after installing the first CD; if you leave the CD in the drive, then it freezes on boot when the second icon from the bottom is lit up; the last message to the console is:
Creating /dev/mapper/control character device with major:10 and minor:63
If I pop the CD out and reboot, it boots fine and gets back to the installation, at which point it prompts for the second CD. When I insert the second CD and click "OK," it thinks for a second and appears to start reading the CD, then freezes. (The clock stops spinning.)
I've used the same CD set to install on four other machines without a problem, so I know that's not an issue. Of the three GX1's we've tried to install on, though, only one has worked. I've tried both upgrading the machines from 9.3, and doing fresh installs; both fail the same way. We never had a problem with SuSE 9.1-9.3 on these machines, and on one box I installed 9.3 in the morning and tried installing 10.0 in the afternoon, so I don't think the boxes are flaky. Has anyone had similar problems? Or does anyone know a workaround? Thanks!
Chris St. Pierre Unix Systems Administrator Nebraska Wesleyan University
Any chance that the machines that are freezing have 128MB of RAM, and the one that worked has 256MB?