I’m a newbe to OpenSUSE system, and I’ve found some problems installing this system on my Acer Aspire 1300 laptop. I haven’t got any problems installing Fedora 8 or Debian 4.0.
The system boots correctly, including X, but when it reachs a window called “Instalation Settings” (where you select partition options, software, …), it locks completely (well, I could make a screen shot).
Hi when that lock up occurs, does it also lock your keyboard…e.g. you aren’t able to reboot gracefully?
If it doesn’t lock your keyboard, there should be an installation console logging what is going on behind the scenes you can get to it, by using the ctl+alt+f1 (or f2 or f3 can’t remember which one off the top of my head ) key combination. The log may tell you where the installer is croaking and help point you in the right direction.
If you aren’t able to do that, one thing I have noticed with SuSE/openSuSE, is it’s very sensitive to things in the bios. 9 times out of ten, when I have experienced lock ups like that, I either had an incorrect setting in my bios, for AGP, ACPI, etc. or I had a piece of hardware incorrectly ordered.
Oh yes, I almost forgot, another thing…did you check your install media? Is it a burned CD? The media you use for the install, if it’s bad, might lead to that issue too. Your CD rom may not be able to read the media correctly either, if it’s a burned CD.
I think I’ve found the cause of the problem. My Acer Aspire 1300CX comes with 256 Mb RAM and the problems dissapear with a memory update, in my case, to 1Gb.
I’m not sure why do OpenSUSE need more than 256Mb to run, even other systems like Debian 4.0 or Fedora 8 work fine.
So if you have an Acer Aspire 1300XC and you plan to install OpenSUSE, you’ll maybe need to upgrade you system memory.
That is strange when I use opensuse 10.3 was on my old PC with 256 MB RAM , works fine.
The only thing was the ADD Ons should be install after the basic install
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) key combination. The log may tell you where the installer is croaking and help point you in the right direction.