Paul et all -
I'm feeling like a Linux stud tonight!... got the Suse to install on the
Acer Aspire! The trick was probably related to a not quite right CD driver
mentioned in response to my query. I threw out the idea of installing from a
bootable CD-ROM and on a second computer I made a set of boot floppies.
I slapped the floppies and watched the linux kernel decompress without
CRC error (even though that file came from the very same CD that was giving
me problems when I tried to boot from it). . . and now I'm on my way to the
hour and 45 minutes of installing Suse 8.0. BTW Suse, like Mandrake
automatically recognized the entire 20 GB hard drive overcoming the 8 GB BIOS
limitation and formatted the whole thing (less the 500 MB DOS partition [I
hope!]). I also like the fact that Suse will install on a system with a
640X480 resolution monitor... that way I can interact on my real machine and
experiment on the Acer.
Oh Joy!!!
w/r Bill
On Thursday 09 May 2002 03:08 pm, you wrote:
> Paul & all who helped -
>
> Thanks very much for the suggestions. I've been engaging the Suse help
> line both telephone and by e-mail... we have not really come up with an
> answer yet. Its possible its two cases of bad CD-ROM media, or perhaps
> more likely that there is just a hardware compatibllity issue with Suse in
> which case I'm doomed from getting it going on the Acer. I'll let the list
> know if anything new develops.
>
> FYI, I had a chance to try out some additional distributions to further
> test the Acer. The following are my results:
>
> RH7.2 OK
> eSmith (RH7.1) OK
> Corel Linux second ed. OK
> Mandrake 8.2 OK
> Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 Crash (immediate)
> Suse 8.0 Crash (at end of kernel decompression)
> Open BSD Booted from floppy but couldn't talk to the CD-ROM
> FreeBSD 4.4 OK
> Pico BSD OK
> Small Linux OK
> Win 3.1 OK
> Win 95 OK
>
>
> This experiment has been most instructive. Here's what I saw:
>
> I found Mandrake 8.2 to be an unexpected pleasure to install and use -
> this was my first exposure to Mandrake. It was the only distribution that
> was able to overcome my computer BIOS limitation and access the full 20 GB
> of hard drive space vice only the 8 GB supported by the BIOS.
> Unfortunately Mandrake seems to require a video monitor with more than
> 640x480 resolution. - even to just accomplish the installation.
>
> Corel Linux second edition was admittedly an older distribution. It was
> like taking a flashback to the RH5.2 days. Manual partitioning was
> required.... not hard, certainly not as challenging as BSD partitioning
> (but even that gets easy once youve done it a few times). The Netscape in
> this distribtution kept crashing. Corel had problems with 64x480
> resolution during installation...required manual Xserver configuration.
>
> Red Hat 7.2 is what I've been using since I got back into Linux. I
> might be tempted to switch to Mandrake if they bring out a KDE 3.0 distro
> sooner rather than later...
>
>
> w/r Bill
>
> On Tuesday 07 May 2002 11:02 pm, you wrote:
> > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 07:31:59PM -0400, William Calderwood wrote:
> > > When attempting to install my system crashes and nothing I've been
> > > able to do has gotten around the problem. I called Suse Tech support
> > > and ran a memory test and finally they suggested I trade in my copy and
> > > try a second - same problem on the new copy. Was wondering if anyone
> > > else has experienced this same problem and might have a suggestion on
> > > how to overcome it?
> > >
> > > w/r Bill Calderwood
> > >
> > > Error message: (come up just as the kernal is finishing uncompressing)
> > >
> > > Uncompressing Linux . . .
> > > crc error
> > > - - System halted
> > >
> > > Trouble shooting attempted:
> > >
> > > Thinking I might have a memory problem,
> >
> > From your tests, it doesn't look like you have a memory problem. A CRC
> > error looks like your install media. I wonder if SuSE had some bad
> > burns. I realize you got new media, but they could have burned a whole
> > batch bad.
> >
> > Smitty mentioned potential driver problems, which could be the case if
> > it's the CDROM driver, hacking up your bits on the way to memory.
> >
> > Paul
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