Installation of SUSE Linux

[speedy21d]

Ubuntu is cool! I've been doing some work on ubuntu at work & I like it.

[JordanN]

I was going to suggest that you do a media check on your CD's before the install.

Fedora has such a check built into the installer.

[TMcKellar]

Originally Posted by JordanN

I was going to suggest that you do a media check on your CD's before the install.

Fedora has such a check built into the installer.

That's what I was thinking. I ran into a similar problem with Fedora Core 3 or 4 a while back and was able to do the check which told me one of the disks was bad. I was able to download a dvd iso and it installed fine from that.

I didn't realize so many other people around here were Ubuntu users as well. I knew it was getting popular but it's basically everywhere now. If no one has tried them yet, you might want to try the low latency kernels they have for Ubuntu Studio. I think the overall performance is a little better but anything you do with audio will be a ton easier and faster.

[leebouknight]

Just a thought - I don't know about the boot from USB thing, but I might have an idea about why you can't install from CD. You mention this is a Dell - I had a similar problem on 2 of my Dell PC's a while back. I run OpenSuse 10.3 on all my home PC's, and on my main PC, it would start to install, then die part way thru saying it could not find the installation medium. Turns out it has something to do with the way the Dell's identify the CD/harddrive at boot if it's a SATA drive. I don't remember all the details, but I had to tell it on the boot command line (at the very start of the boot from CD) to not even try to identify the drive as SATA; only use IDE. It worked like a charm after that.

Now if only I can find that information again on how to do that.....it has something to do with telling it which modules to load at boot and which NOT to load....when I get back home, I can probably find it in my notes and pass it on. Could be your CD problem.

Regards