[Scottish] New PC and SUSE woes

[Danny Owens]

Hi Colin,

I have heard SATA disks often cause difficulties.   Is there an IDE bus on 
the MoBo that you can stick an old type HDD on while you test the 
compatibility of the rest of the machine?

Once you get it up and running you may be able to download a more recent 
kernel that has appropriate SATA support.

Sounds like it will really cook when you finally get it going...

Compliments of the season,
Danny

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin Fraser" <Colin.Fraser at riverfern.co.uk>
To: "SLUG-list" <scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 12:55 PM
Subject: [Scottish] New PC and SUSE woes


> 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
>
>
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