I'm trying to install Suse 9.1 personal onto an older machine. AMD K6/2-350, FIC 503+ mb, 256Mb ram, 40 gig WD EIDE drive, 2 cd-roms, Kingston KNE120TX nic (to my router/cable modem). I have run M$ Win95/ME, RedHat 5.2 & 9.1 on it, and (successfully) installed Debian, although I have decided I wwant Suse instead. The Live Eval CD works, although VERY slowly.

I d/l the 9.1 home from the Illinois (USA) mirror, everything checked out. Burned the CD.

First attempt to install (graphical install) gave me about 40 dependency errors (I only added a few packages, but even YaST & OpenOffice had dependency issues!), but tried to install anyway. Stopped it 3 hours later at 26%.

Second attempt (again, graphical install) I went for all the defaults - NO changes. 2 hours later, at 5%, I stopped it.

Third attempt (text-based install) was 'safe install'. I let it run overnight. 7 hours later, it was at 14%.

What's up? Any suggestions? Is there a trick I'm missing?

Thanks!

Have you checked the md5sum agains the CD you burned?

Seeya,
Finn.

can't help you with suse but check out the partition error here
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/0...booting91.html