I'm trying to install it on two old Pentium and PentiumII machines. The PII hangs when partitions have been selected and packages ditto, before you are about to begin the insatallation proper. Any idea where to look for problems?

The other goes through until reboot after installing CD1. then it reports GRUB error. I have two HD's on it, Win98 on hda and linux on hdb. This machine is not capable of booting from CD (no such choice in the BIOS.

the no cdrom solution is to have a floppy that can enable drivers for a cd
http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm

2) you need to post what is the grub error or if you like have a look at my turorial
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=237511

3) the cd enabled computer is another matter. I assume its an IDE drive as well.
if you have a burner, grab knoppix and boot it to see what it sees.

however I think you need to specify your RAM and cpu speed as I suspect that suse is too demanding.

4) if I am right you may need to see if you can do a text install.

5) but slackware is ideal for old hardware check it out
www.distrowatch.com
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7694

The floppies combined with a slightly newer CD-ROM station did the trick. (I have a box of odds and sods, I "never" trhrow away something that might be of use later. :-)

The other machine turned out to have a dud mamory DIM (intermittent error), but HW check didn't catch it.