SuSE Installation

[Zenex]

I'm running a dual-boot PC with win98 and mandrake 7.2. I like mandrake, but i had a few problems, so i wanted to try a different distro. Ive heard the install on SuSE is really good, so i figured it would be like mandrake's. I went to their site, logged in to ftp.suse.com, and started downloading. 5 gigs and 2 days later (windows crashed on me like 20 times on me which delayed it somewhat) i finally got the monster on my hd. I figured i'd have to rawrite a bootdisk, boot into the install, and it would load yast. I wrote the boot disk (with no help from suse's rawrite, i had to use the one from mandrake) and rebooted. It said it coulden't find the install files. I know i specified the right partition/directory, i use /dev/hda1 for windows (where the install was) and /dev/hda4 for linux. I thought it might be a FAT32 problem, but i can't put the install files on the partition im installing to, can i? What should I do?

[Coral Sea]

You might want to try an FTP install instead from a fast site (e.g., download.sourceforge.net) to get at least a minimum install on your machine. For that, you'll need the bootdisk and one or both modules disks (to load a NIC driver).

Last time I tried, there seemed to be a bug in SuSE's install files because the installation would always hang on the db RPM.

If I were a suspicious fellow, I'd almost think the bug was deliberate. Maybe it's just my hardware?

[Zenex]

this doesnt say it cant find a specific file per se, it says it cant even find the folder. i did notice it mounts the drive tho.

[bdg1983]

hda4 is the actual extended partition holder for the logical partitions and contains no data, just the logical partitions.

hda1 primary
hda2 primary
hda3 primary
(hda4) extended and not a actual physical partition
hda5 logical
hda6 ...

Try hda5, the first logical.

[bdg1983]

Perhaps a correction as I could be wrong.

Not sure of the assignments if you create just 4 primary partitions and no extended/logical partitions. Would they be hda1,2,3,4?