ok ive asked on numerous forums how to get this to work and got no answer that worked (plz note im typing on a wii so i try to abbreviate, also i have no option of downloading a new suse10.3 disc) alright i'm trying to install suse 10.3 on a computer that has no os (due to recovery errors that basically whiped my harddrive clean. im trying to install from a live cd that gets me a command prompt thing after choosing"suse 10.3" from the first screen it greets you with. i do not get a gui just the command prompt looking thing (another forum said i cant get a gui untill i get suse installed) so at login i login as "root" and type "yast" if yast actually pops up (sometimes it doesnt) i choose "live install" it then partitions but at the "copying image to disk stage " it randomly hangs once getting as far as 97% (ive tried installing numerous times) . is there anyway i can get this installed with yast?? (linux noob plz be specific) here are the computer specs that i know:


hp pavillion a305w
intel celeron cpu 2.7ghz
760mb ram
nvidia geforce fx 5500 video card* note * the computer also has integrated intel graphics i removed nvidia and tried the integrated card and the integrated had the same problem

please help me if you can im about ready to just stick with windows and get a new vista pc(ew i hate vista) ive had this issue for a few weeks now btw

When you first power-up with the installation dvd in the drive, you should see a DOS-type menu of options. Please show those options here, and which one you choose for the installation.

If you are selecting a console-mode installation, you will not see graphics, and you will probably not install graphic environment apps.

This is not an installation dvd it's a live cd. When i get the options i want to do the green screen gives me 3 options. option one just says "suse 10.3" option 2 say "hard disk" option 3 is a mem check. I have no "installation" option. I choose "suse 10.3" which boots to another green screen that shows a little loading bar. after the bar loads the whole way it gives me a black screen that says "opensuse" in the top left and basically funtions as a command prompt does in windows. I type "root" as my login with no password as it's not installed yet, i then type yast. at the yast screen i go to miscelaneous [sp*] and then choose live install. After the live install goes through "formatting partitions" it goes to "copying image to disk" that's the part where the install hangs at random points. [this computer has no operating system which i'm told is the reason it wont give me a gui, i was told to try a text based install [which I assume you do using yast]. I assume after I get it installed i will be able to get a gui running but can someone please help me get the yast installer to not hang? I've tried typing in the commands [in boot options] "acpi=off and apm=off" I also type in "init 3" in the boot as runlevel 5 doesn't give me a gui anyway [i assume untill i get a text based install working] and runlevel 3 is a lot less likely to crash on me. If someone could please help me quick it would be great, I'm running out of options here. [please note that running sax2 finds my graphics card specifically and everything I just need to get this installed from the command prompt type thing.]

OK. Just to be sure I'm standing on solid ground, I rebooted with my copy of the OpenSuse 10.3 liveCD (kde version).

It booted into the kde desktop without a hitch. Configured everyting (including my internet connection), from which I now type this response.

Where did you get the liveCD? Is it from the OpenSuse website, or is it one someelse remastered to start in command-line mode?

If you downloaded it from the OpenSuse website, did you check the md5sum of the iso against the md5sum at the OpenSuse site?

Note: YaST is a management tool, not a graphical environment. It runs in either command-line or gui mode. To use in in gui mode, you need a gui such as kde or gnome.

Note: YaST is a management tool; not a graphical environment. It can be used in both command-line and gui mode. To use it in gui mode, you need a graphical environment such as kde or gnome.

When your copy boots to command-line mode, did you try startx, startkde, startgnome, or init 5 in an effort to get to graphic mode?

Since the OS in entirely on the cd, you don''t need an OS on the hard drive.