INTALLING SUSE 7.2

[rafael]

Installing suse 7.2 in my pentium iii 500 mhz, mb lmrt 748, 128 mb the program hangs after the following message:

Starting Hardware detection...
cdrom.3.1: read cdrom.

My cdrom model is:

LG-CD-RW CED-8080B

May anybody help me???

Thanks,

Rafael Pirela

[n:s0mniak]

I just installed SuSE 7.2 2 days ago on almost the exact configuration and I had no problems. How long does it stay there for? what other kind of hardware do you have?

[miker]

if you've bought the distro and have registered it with suse, then fire an email off to them.

they've been pretty good about some problems I've had, normally get back to you in a couple of days.

[rafael]

THE REST OF MY COMPUTER IS AS FOLLOWS

- Processor: manufacturer, frequency (MHz)
+++ Intel Pentium III, 500Mhz
- Motherboard: manufacturer, name
+++ 748 LMRT (pc 100)
- Main Memory: size of RAM
+++ 128Mb
- Hard drive controller: SCSI, IDE, name
+++ IDE
- Hard drives : type, manufacturer, name, size,
bus system (SCSI, IDE), partitions
+++ IDE, FUJITSU, 40Gb
- CD-ROM drives: type, manufacturer, name,
speed, internal/external, parallel port?
LG RD/RW CED 8080B
ZIP drives, Jaz drives, MO drives, flopticals?
+++ Internal Zip drive
- Graphics card: type, manufacturer, chipset, memory
(DRAM, VRAM), size of memory
+++ SIS 620 AGP, integrated on chipset, share main memory, set at 8Mb DRAM
on BIOS
- Other peripherals: printer, parallel ports, serial
interfaces, modem, ISDN card
> +++ HP DeskJet 810C inkjet printer
> +++ HSP_56 MicroModem

[bdg1983]

Is you cdrom set on secondary master or slave?

I've read in previous posts here that sometimes certain distros will not install if the cdrom is set to secondary/slave and needs to be master.

If this is the case, it may be worth a try.

Are you booting directly from cd or using a boot/install disk?

[rafael]

Originally posted by mdwatts the 3rd:
<STRONG>Is you cdrom set on secondary master or slave?

I've read in previous posts here that sometimes certain distros will not install if the cdrom is set to secondary/slave and needs to be master.

If this is the case, it may be worth a try.

Are you booting directly from cd or using a boot/install disk?</STRONG>

Mr.

First, Thanks for your interest and help.

I am installing with the CD. The CD-Rom is set as primary master.

In this moment Mandrake 8.0 is installed in my computer who no had problems for installing. It was very easy.

I don´t understand why Suse has this problem in the same computer. I had the same problem with Suse 7.1.

Suse 7.0 was installed in my computer but when i changed my harddisk to the Fujitsu 40Gb he did not recognize all the capacity of the disk and i had to change to Mandrake.

Both Mandrake 7.2 and 8.0 was installed without problems.

Thanks again,

Rafael Pirela