[Scottish] New PC and SUSE woes

[Colin Fraser]

Hi all,

Recently got a new 'multimedia'  PC - 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 (hyperthreaded), 
512 Mb RAM,  230-ish Gb SATA disk, wireless USB keyboard and mouse, 
DVD-RW and DVD ROM, bluetooth, 2 x ethernet, Firewire, wireless, 
TV/radio, Nvidia Geforce. and thought this would be a great  Linux box 
(if I could get it working) and that's where my troubles began!

I've used SUSE for some years and want to stay with that if I can. First 
I tried 9.1 Personal (magazine DVD) and no-way would it recognise the 
keyboard and mouse. After googling about I found the best option was to 
replace them with the corded variety and set up the wireless ones later. 
But I also read lots and lots of tales of many problems with 9.1 so 
decided to go back to 9.0 Professional, the official SUSE distribution 
I've used on other machines since it was released.

Now YAST won't recognise the disk at all  so the install is a no go.

Has anyone any idea how I might get around this one?  Might it be BIOS 
settings that are causing the problem? If ned be I'll dust off the 
wallet and spring for 9.2.

Any suggestions gratefully received and a  happy Christmas to all,

Colin