[Scottish] New PC and SUSE woes

[Kenny Kerr]

I had problems installing 9.0 on a laptop.  the problem was no packages
found during the install, due to a 'known issue' with CDRW/DVD combo drives.
I can't remember what the workaround was but it took me a couple of days to
sort it out.

Cheers

Kenny
----- 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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