Suse 9.0 Install Problems

okay, so i actually took the time to download SuSE 9.0 in order to install it on my laptop to replace my Redhat 7.2... All was fine until for some reason the installer decided that i would mess up on me and stop being able to install anything after the first few packages if i didnt format my current / partition (where the downloaded data is... so i cant really format it). This is getting a little annoying...as i left this downloading for like 2 days and now it wont install. Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers, If all else fails i'll pick up a mandrake 9.2 cd when i go home this weekend :S

#115878

Hmm... no ideas on this, huh? I cant figure it out... Yast wont let me resize the partition and create a new one either... does it make a difference that its an EXT3 parition? Is there any way i can get in to the file system without linux running to delete everything off the partition apart from the install files? I think the fact that my old distro was installed there might be a problem...

Cheers,

#115929

uhm ya.

of course you don't want to install a DIFFERENT distro over each other. I'd almost say OK if you were going to upgrade a distro, but jesus.

Why don't you just install WinNT ontop of a WinXP install. see how that works out for you. No .dll errors or anything, hell why would there be.

A, format the damn partition, get over it. If you wanna try a new distro, you gotta do what you gotta do. I recommend making a seperate partition for /home. Always format the / partition, but not /home. That way your user settings are saved.

B, Ctrl+shift+F# to another console window. Login and run fdisk , or if you're not quite familiar with command line hackery. Run cfdisk , it's a lot like DOS's fdisk with a GUI to format, change, etc partitions.

#115948

I have a related question...

I need to remove my Linux partition(s) (since Fedora doesn't work with my vid card) but when I did it, I wasn't able to boot into Windows because GRUB (the OS selector) wasn't there, obviously. So I had to reinstall Fedora to get GRUB back

My question is...how to remove Fedora and its partition(s) and be able to go back to Windows afterward.

Or, someone could tell me a distro that supports 9800 Pro's.

Thx

#115982

when you were trying to configure the 9800pro, did you try giving xf86config-4 the most basic drivers?

ie. vga or vesa?

i think the mandrake install disc can reinstate the windows boot loader.

#115988

try doing the ftp-installation... that way, you won't need the iso files you downloaded.. it'll just download/install for you straight from the ftp

#116061

well, there is a few commands you can through into grub when it errors out, to actually get it to boot into windows. I can't recall them off the top of my head, and i'm a lilo kinda guy.

Throw in a XP cd. Boot up, choose to do the command line repair.

fixboot

fixmbr

it'll rewrite your master boot record back to the windows boot loader.

Keith:

http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linu...=7&submit=GO%21

ATI's linux driver download page. i'd start there.

#116068

@Fissy: Yup, I tried vesa allready. Upon rebooting it said "Error in line [?] of [xf86config]..."

@Deleted:

1. Cool, thx

2. Just to let you know, I have allready RTFM, found that on gooeylinux

If my connection would work in Linux that would be great

I must be a pain

#116069

Originally posted by Keith@Feb 18 2004, 04:38 PM

1. Cool, thx

2. Just to let you know, I have allready RTFM, found that on gooeylinux

If my connection would work in Linux that would be great

I must be a pain

dial up or broadband?

if it's the latter, there should be no reason it wont work. There are a kazillion NIC drivers. does it not detect it, or do you not know how to set it up?

ifconfig eth0 IP -subnet SUBNET

route add default gw GATEwAY

replacing the big cap'd words with the appropriate values. You can get them from running

ipconfig /all

in windows. also add your nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf

If ifconig says file not found, it's not in your path, it's usually in /sbin or /usr/sbin , oh and make sure you're root

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin

that should get you going.

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