Trying to do the above with the x86 version, as the 64 bit version is taking quite some time to download. When I insert the disc, it boots, then i click installation then the screen goes blank/ monitor switches off.

Where am I going wrong, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Have you tried Installation Fail Safe? It may be something weird happening with you gfx card. Have you ever managed to install SuSE (or other dists) on this PC or is a totally new machine?

Have installed a few distros(FC5, Ubuntu) in the past with no real problems , will try what you suggested and report back, cheers.

I just installed it OK on my machine, I opted to download the x86 DVD over the 64 bits enabled because of compatibility and time, though I might try the 64 bits one later

my machine:
AMD Athlon64 3700+ ~ 2.2 GHz (socket 939, San Diego core)
2 GB RAM DDR400 kingston
ASUS A8N-E, chipset NForce4 Ultra
250 GB Maxtor sata 2.0 hard disk (7200 rpm)
160 GB Maxtor IDE hard disk (7200 rpm)
EVGA e-GeForce 6600GT PCI-e, 128MB GDDR3 VRAM (500 MHz core, 1000 MHz memory)
17" Samsung SyncMaster 793df monitor (CRT)


All the installation went quite smooth at 1280x1024 resolution (though the b*tch installer suggested to delete all my partitions on the sata drive, didn't seemed enough to it one big unpartitioned space of 100 Gb!)

Though the bootloader failed to install itself, I just had to reboot, enter slackware (), modify lilo.conf, reinstall it and reboot again. Spent some time configuring and presto!!, SuSE was installed and working outright. Just had to tweak a little the xorg.conf it didn't feel right on the monitor edges (there were some bad mode lines).

by the way, XGL looks just so damn great