--- Mello
On 5/18/06, StephenW
wrote: Have tried to install 10.1 three times. ... Hi Stephen, can you share with us the HW configuration of your PC? That may help... Also, is it a new installation or an upgrade? Any success installing Linux on this same system before?
System Info: Asus A7N8X-Deluxe MotherBoard AMD Barton chip (1.4 GHz) 1 Gig RAM 160 Gig HD New install Yes, I have successfully run: Suse 8.1 & 9.0, RedHat 9.0, Mepis 3.3
<possibly lame advice> I've had similar problems when trying to install onto low memory (128MB RAM and even 256MB RAM) systems. The workaround that I can suggest (worked for me, so...) is: 1. start in RESCUE mode 2. partition/format the hard disk manually (must have some proficiency with fdisk) 3. don't forget to enable the swap space (mkswap, swapon) 4. reboot and try normal installation.
In my experience this has made the installation possible (twice), and it only takes a few mins to test. My hope is that the installation program recognizes the swap space and utilizes it.
I have done manual partitioning -- but, I am not expert nor comfortable doing it. Never have been sure I did it right. I will give it a go - can't be any worse than it is now... :-) StephenW