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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