I boot up using the network mini cd it gets to step 1\4 installation and then stops which is about half way through the suse boot screen the text is from pressing esc to see where it stopped.
I cant get it to go any futher
can anyone help
cduance wrote:
>
> I boot up using the network mini cd it gets to step 1\4 installation and
> then stops which is about half way through the suse boot screen the text
> is from pressing esc to see where it stopped.
>
> I cant get it to go any futher
>
> can anyone help
>
>
I noticed that myself… you might try letting it run longer. it sure
seemed like my system froze on me when it did that… but if you flip to
one of the other consoles (ALT-F1,2,3,4,x), you’ll see that it’s
compressing the data it just downloaded.
Seems that the installer downloads a chunk of stuff, then creates a
compressed ‘squashfs’, which allows more information to be stored in system
ram. It does this four times. Watch the hard drive LED if you have one.
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
L R Nix wrote:
> cduance wrote:
>
>> I boot up using the network mini cd it gets to step 1\4 installation and
>> then stops which is about half way through the suse boot screen the text
>> is from pressing esc to see where it stopped.
>>
>> I cant get it to go any futher
>>
>> can anyone help
>>
>>
>
> I noticed that myself… you might try letting it run longer. it sure
> seemed like my system froze on me when it did that… but if you flip to
> one of the other consoles (ALT-F1,2,3,4,x), you’ll see that it’s
> compressing the data it just downloaded.
>
> Seems that the installer downloads a chunk of stuff, then creates a
> compressed ‘squashfs’, which allows more information to be stored in system
> ram. It does this four times. Watch the hard drive LED if you have one.
>
>
I got confused the first time, especially as it ends each line with
(1k), which I assumed was a size reference and expect a similar length
delay for each - there seemed to be no disk activity (perhaps the
“blink” was too short for my failing eyesight 
). Perhaps a “rotating
spoke” would have helped to say “I’m doing something”.
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PeeGee
Asus M2NPV-VM, AMD 64X2 3800+, openSuSE 10.3 x86-64/XP Home dual boot
Asus M2V-MX SE, AMD LE1640, openSuSE 11.0 x86-64/XP Home dual boot
PeeGee wrote:
> L R Nix wrote:
>> cduance wrote:
>>
>>> I boot up using the network mini cd it gets to step 1\4 installation and
>>> then stops which is about half way through the suse boot screen the text
>>> is from pressing esc to see where it stopped.
>>>
>>> I cant get it to go any futher
>>>
>>> can anyone help
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I noticed that myself… you might try letting it run longer. it sure
>> seemed like my system froze on me when it did that… but if you flip to
>> one of the other consoles (ALT-F1,2,3,4,x), you’ll see that it’s
>> compressing the data it just downloaded.
>>
>> Seems that the installer downloads a chunk of stuff, then creates a
>> compressed ‘squashfs’, which allows more information to be stored in
>> system
>> ram. It does this four times. Watch the hard drive LED if you have one.
>>
>>
>
> I got confused the first time, especially as it ends each line with
> (1k), which I assumed was a size reference and expect a similar length
> delay for each - there seemed to be no disk activity (perhaps the
> “blink” was too short for my failing eyesight ). Perhaps a “rotating
> spoke” would have helped to say “I’m doing something”.
>
Ya, I agree, some sort of “hey, I’m alive!” indicator would’ve been nice.
After installing zillions of systems, you become sensitive to variations in
timing and things. That one was a new surprise. I tried the other
consoles and saw it was ‘squashing’… so I let it run to see if it would
continue. it did, eventually. BIG difference between my Athlon X2 and the
Athlon Semperon. The X2 barely paused there, while the semperon chewed on
it for a while. The cpu cache made a huge difference in processing
ability.
Ah… the days of listening to my computer run with an untuned AM radio…
Now I need a microwave detector. {Sigh} When are computers going to come
equipped with popcorn addons? CPU’s are running at 2.4GHz now… which is
what the microwave runs at… (ok, so it’s not exactly the same, but
still!)
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com