Have not had any success installing Suse on my old pentium II. Other Distros including Mandrake 10.1 and Fedora Core 2 work extremely well.
Suse hangs up in YAST on manual installation. Auto Install hangs up as well.
Intel Celeron 300 MGHZ, 192 mb ram,20gb Maxtor ATA drive, Floppy, Zip, PS2 mouse. Running Dual boot, Windows Professional and Mandrake 10.1
right now with grub.Using 2.6 kernel. Monitor is cheapy from Walmart. Did not uninstall AGP 8 mb(SIS5600) video adaptor but am using old Voodoo3 16mb video adaptor on the machine in PCI slot.

Anything out there that is SUSE background so far has not installed.
I guess I should be happy with the Drake and Red Hat...but, everone says try SUSE.

About the only thing I can think of is a new machine with more Process speed(CPU and Bus)...but, I still like my 1970 Mercedes and my old pentium

Any one have any Idea why SUSE should be so hard to install when everone else reports it is the easiest ever?

I have a single disc version of SUSE 9.0.

Thanks

I strongly suggest you to take a look at:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=266819
and:
http://slackware.com/

Thanks for info on slack..but,its not SUSE...No SUSE users with similar problems hanging up in YAST, Auto Install, manual,safe settings, or, text install?

I had a problem on my Intel Pentium II / III Motherboard (440-BX2). It seemed to have been related to the Chipset. As I recall, I tried the ACPI disabled installation to have it install. There may also be some BIOS settings that you can change. As a rule, as I recall, it is better to set the BIOS settings to fixed settings rather than Auto.

I had another, even older Pentium II motherboard that crashed SuSE everytime I enabled the onboard audio in the BIOS.

How long do you wait? Where does it stop? What is the last thing you are able to do? Is there an error message?
Ditto
From a boxed set or downloaded and burned?