Mostly a Windows user here (sorry?), attempting to install OpenSuse 13.2 on a system using a Gigabyte board with onboard Nvidia GeForce 6100 graphics. I am starting to understand that the concept can be met with some difficulty. I can already see that it is not going as smoothly as I expected so my question is, when I am at the installation option after booting from USB media, what would be the suggested F1-F6 options that I might use to get through to the desktop? Once there I can install the appropriate Nvidia VGA drivers?
First, what is it that you put on the USB media? The installation DVD or a Live system?
Second, please do describe exactly what you did, what happened and where you got stuck during the installation process. “Some difficulty” is not precise enough for others to understand what happens.
Opensuse 13.2 x86 is installed on the USB media, downloaded today. I boot from USB media and attempt to install full version. I choose install and then it will take some time before it works it way to the install options. I think because this motherboard has an Nvidia chipset, OpenSuse may be getting stuck without drivers. For instance is loses contact with the USB install key.
I am going to try installing from a DVD instead. Could Nvidia hardware make this a difficult process?
As far as I am aware, there is no difficulty whatsoever installing (from whatever medium) when you have an Nvidia chipset. It may only be after installation that you might want another driver to get all you want from the GPU, but what is on the installation media is enough to do the installation.
I do not know why you think contact with the USB device is lost, but I doubt that has anything to to with the graphics.
> Opensuse 13.2 x86 is installed on the USB media, downloaded today. I
> boot from USB media and attempt to install full version. I choose
> install and then it will take some time before it works it way to the
> install options. I think because this motherboard has an Nvidia chipset,
> OpenSuse may be getting stuck without drivers. For instance is loses
> contact with the USB install key.
> I am going to try installing from a DVD instead. Could Nvidia hardware
> make this a difficult process?
>
>
Just out of curiosity why are you not using the 64bit version?
I would suggest you try the dvd version though, not sure if it has anything
to do with the chipset I have not used a nForce board for a long time.
HTH
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Also How did you copy to the USB?? Did you use any Linux helper programs? Only follow instructions here
There are several version available on the web site. You should select the FULL DVD install ISO. I’d recommend the 64 bit but it may depend on the hardware you plan to use.
The fact that you have the option at the bottom indicates that you are installing in legacy mode and not using EFI booting. This may be just because of old hardware which is not UEFI based.
Do you have enough memory??
You said you have a problem but did not tell us what the problem is. We can not see over your shoulder you got to describe the problem. All the crystal balls got recalled as defective.
If it is a video problem select no kms option to use generic drivers. I believe it is F3 menu or maybe F4
However, I used the DVD installer (written to a USB). I am quite sure that the live KDE installer will give serious problems, as will the live Gnome installer. Neither KDE nor Gnome like the nouveau drivers. But the full DVD installer is running on the Icewm desktop, which is far more forgiving.
In any case, you can select NoKMS for video options on the boot screen, or add “nomodeset” to the kernel command line. That should boot to degraded graphics that do work with KDE and Gnome.
Once I had completed the install, I logged into Icewm (expecting problems with KDE). And there I added the “nvidia” repo from the community repo and installed the Nvidia G02 driver from that repo.
Highly recommended, as well as a light desktop - or KDE with desktop effects disabled, which I’m using in a very old Turion single core processor with the 6150LE onboard video. It’s no speed demon, but usable.