I tried to boot the Suse live cd on a Compaq TC1000 tablet pc last night. Just wanted to see if it would load. It has an external cd rom. It booted to the cd to the menu and selected boot the os option not install.
It gave me the splash screen but even after an hour the system never came up. the cd stopped spinning and it just sat there.
has anyone ever tried to load suse on a tc1000 tablet pc? I dont care if I lose the tablet functions. I just want it for email on the road etc. xp is a dog on a 900mhz processor it has.
I have Dell latitude with external CD-ROM . OpenSUSE 10.3 didn’t want to boot , but openSUSE 11.0 booted witohout no problems. Which version do you have?
However, from your description it sounds like the CD may not being seen by the kernel or possibly it is encountering another problem with the hardware and/or drivers. That you tried other distros with the same result also suggests this. Try adding this to the Boot Options below:
edd=off
And if that doesn’t work, try this:
acpi=off apm=off nolapic noapic pci=nomsi
Also, press Escape to drop the splash screen to text (or choose the Text install option under F3); you may see the specific error.
Sorry, I just don’t know. I’ve no experience in this area. I looked at that repo and saw a number of different kernels, so that may be important. My only suggestion would be to take him up on his offer:
If you need some help to get you Tablet PC running feel free to ask me.
Afterthought: Try installing in “text mode”, then following installation rebooting into runlevel 3 (just the number 3 in the Boot Options on the menu), logging in, switching to root (the “su” command, without quotes), and then run sax2 - there is an option there for Tablet gui configuration. (Of course, if you need something special in the kernel in order to recognize the hardware, that’s a different matter - Danny may be of help on that.)
I appreciate the info . I dont remember seeing an option to boot text mode but may be its in the bottom menus not the ones in the middle of the screen. Ill have to look at it tonight when I get home.