OpenSUSE 11.3 LiveCD boot asking for "Linux login"

English Install/Boot/Login
#1

I have a compaq 5102US, 1.0ghz AMD Athlon, 256MB RAM, 100 GB Hard Drive. it has XP Pro SP3, and I wanted to try installing openSUSE 11.3 on it.

I downloaded the GNOME version of 11.3 32 bit, and created a cd. Popped the cd in, and I did a media check, which resulted in no errors on the installation file.

Then I selected the GNOME LiveCD option in the boot menu. What i get is this screen with a list of things on the left and statuses on the right that mostly say “done” in green.

Of that list, Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions (modprobe vboxguest failed) is in red and says “failed.” Nothing else says failed. Other messages of concern include:
Starting vmtoolsd FATAL: Module vmmemctl not found.

Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached
Failed services in runlevel 5: vboxadd
Skipped services in runlevel 5: cifs nfs

then the message reads: "Welcome to openSUSE 11.3 ‘Teal’ - Kernel 2.6.34-12-default (tty1).

linux login:

"

I don’t know what is going on or what the “linux login” is supposed to be. Perhaps the computer is too old for this to work?

Thanks in advance for looking this over. (I’m a pretty new user to the linux systems)

#2

On 2010-12-19 01:06, SUSEnew wrote:
>
> I have a compaq 5102US, 1.0ghz AMD Athlon, 256MB RAM, 100 GB Hard Drive.

Your ram is scarce for a live system. A live system, as it can not use a
hard disk to store temporary things, or use swap, needs much more memory
than a real system.

> Of that list, Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions (modprobe
> vboxguest failed) is in red and says “failed.”

Irrelevant - unless you were running inside a virtualbox environment.

> I don’t know what is going on or what the “linux login” is supposed to
> be. Perhaps the computer is too old for this to work?

Possibly. Graphics mode failed, perhaps because the memory is not enough.
It is possible to login in text mode, but I don’t remember what the
login/pass is in text mode in the live.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

#3

The problem is that 256MB of ram is a little light on, you could enter the password ( I’m not sure but think it’s linux) and type startx however, I would look for a version with a light weight desktop, LXDE is nice, Derivatives - openSUSE.

#4

you could enter the password ( I’m not sure but think it’s linux)

I think this should be " enter the user name linux and press <enter> at the password prompt"

#5

Thanks everyone, I’ll give your suggestions a try. I might also give something like Puppy a try since this computer has only so little RAM. Have a good one!

#6

Thanks everyone, I’ll give your suggestions a try. I might also give something like Puppy a try since this computer has only so little RAM. Have a good one!

You may well find that installing via the install option at the boot loader screen successfully installs, if not, Puppy is a good choice, as is dam* small linux (replace the * with n, frustratingly, this forum sees that word as forbidden! when it is the name of a high quality distro this is annoying. to say the least.)