[wellylug] Installation problem.

[Peter Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Beardslee [mailto:itb at falcons.co.nz] 
> Sent: Monday, 28 August 2006 1:32 p.m.
> To: Wellington Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Installation problem.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Jones <>
> To: "'Wellylug ()'" <>
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:35:02 +1200
> Subject: [wellylug] Installation problem.
> 
> > Morning all,
> > Having a problem installing  - boots off CD ok, goes through the 
> > preamble, gets to"decompressing linux...ok, booting the kernel" and 
> > hangs.
> > 
> 
> Hmm, I'd be inclined to do things such as disable as much as 
> possible in the BIOS.  But also I've found that some installs 
> you may need to pass some options to the kernel .. to disable 
> DMA, USB, PCMCIA etc.
> 
> Are these install or live CDs it is not working with?  Some 
> live CDs seem to work different (use different kernels and 
> scripts) to the install CDs.

All are install CDs, didn't have a copy of Knoppix at home. Will take it
home tonight.
With the Mandrake 10, Fedora and Suse 10 I tried the various boot options to
no effect.
Gave up at that point. I know the disks are good as they have loaded on
other boxes in the past, 
Most recently I put Suse on a Toshiba laptop (and it works very well
considering the processor (C400) and memory (256) constraints.)

Peter