[Wolves] Linux on an old PC

[Peter Cannon]

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 14:10, Adam Sweet wrote:

> One other thought. I think ACPI implementations in
> older motherboards can be a bit dicey, it's certainly
> caused some of my machines to fail to install. Try
> turning acpi off. There's normally a way of passing
> this tothe installer like
>
> linux acpi-off

Ah, good point, although Suse are aware of this problem and it is now part of 
the install choices as of version 9.2.

I cant remember them all now, but the general gist is correct I think its 
something like;

1. Install

2. Install acpi-off

3. Install Text-Only

4. Install safe-mode

I used safe-mode when I loaded Tim's machine for him that PC was throwing a 
wobbly too.


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Regards,
Peter Cannon.
peter at cannon-linux.co.uk
Fedora Core 3 & Suse Pro 9.2

"There is every excuse for not knowing
there is no excuse for not asking"
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