I have an Abit IC7-G motherboard, a WD SATA 120GB hard drive, a Lite-on combo CD/DVD and an I/O Magic (BENQ DVD DD DW1620) DVD burner in my system.


The suse install issue is two-fold. First, during the install there is a LONG pause while the installation program interrogates hda and hdc repeatedly, with no response from either before it finally moves on. Is that normal?

Second, after it gets past the issue above, it initializes a few things, and then it says "Searching for infofile". Then it crashes back to a graphic text mode and displays "Could not find the Suse Linux installation CD" "Activating manual setup program"

what happened that after doing part of an install from either CD or DVD, it suddenly can't find the CD or DVD?


Any way to help get suse installed would be appreciated.

Tony

I'm thinking your mother board may not be the most linux friendly mother board out there. Try a live CD like Knoppix and see if everything loads properly

Oh, I should note that Mandrake has installed just fine, every time I try it. It doesn't hesitate, and it DEFINITELY doesn't have the "lost CD" issue....

Very strange. I know that the MB isn't very linux friendly, but I've not had any problems with Mandrake....




Tony

you might have gotten a broken iso image while downloading, this does happen every once ina while since iso files do not have a way to verificate themselves, check the md5sum ( I don't know how though) Or just download it once agian, if you use bittorrent to download it, the result gets verified aslong as it is completly downloaded (this is no guarantee that the sourcefile is proper though)

I have had problems with burning an iso at too fast of a speed as well. Try burning it at 1 or 2x.

krisealv,

thanks for the reply. The discs are the purchased version of Suse.




Tony

Try installing with acpi disabled, you can allways add acpi when the system is installed, I had problems innstalling on a laptop with acpi enabled, but whit acpi disabled it worked fine. Also, tou can try the safe settings.

krisealv,

Thanks again for the reply. I have tried all the settings (disabling/enabling) to no avail. I am hoping its something that I can do like a bios upgrade, or a cmos reconfiguration.

I would really like to use suse, and not have to use mandrake.


Tony