Problems installing SuSE 9.0

[RX-Heaven]

Hello all. Im trying to install SuSE 9.0 Personal on a Dell Precision 610 Workstation. I boot to the CD and configure an FTP install from a mirror and after that, choose all packages and I come back about 2 hours later to a blank screen. I rebooted the box and the SuSE splash screen appears where it says "Linux" "Floppy" etc etc. I choose linux and then it dies.

Hardware is:

Dell Precision 610
AIC-7890 SCSI controller
2 16.9 GB Seagate Cheetah HD's
32MB Diamond Viper 770 TNT2 card.
Netgear Gigabit NIC

I think it has something to do with the way I partitioned the box.
SDA
100MB for /boot
1GB for SWAP
15.8GB for /

SDB
16.9GB for /USR

Can you tell me if this is right or make suggestions on what it should be. Im trying to run a MySQL database and WebCall ticket tracking system on this box.

Please help

Mike

[mdwatts]

I just finished my second in as many days, SuSE 9.0 ftp installs on my spare laptop around a hour ago and did not have any problems with either (rescue/prod) of the installs.

The laptop does not have a internal cdrom and there must be something wrong with the USB port as both SuSE and XP installs lockup after trying to use a few of my external USB cdr's/cdrw's. Had to resort to ftp instead at least for SuSE.


I come back about 2 hours later to a blank screen


You will never know where the install fails unless you stick around during the package installation or other process.

[RX-Heaven]

not so sure it fails......I think the partition is off. I have installed SuSE 9.0 successfully on 2 laptops in the past month or so with no problems but I accepted their partition scheme. What do you think. I noticed in theirs...they had no /boot partition. Is this correct.

Mike

[mdwatts]

If the installer finds a empty primary Linux filesystem partition, I believe it will suggest using /boot. If you have not as yet pre-partitioned, then I don't think the installer will default to having a separate /boot partition. I always select 'custom partitioning' myself.

After the packages have been selected and installed, the installer should have stopped while it waited for input on the next step. Does it do a mini boot after the package installation? Shows what my memory is like as I just did the second ftp install this morning. :rolleyes: