I have just tried installing Open Suse, because I thought I should at least try to persuaded myself that I like Linux, and it told me that it couldn’t use a graphical interface for the installation because there weren’t 94Mb of memory availabe. Actually there are 4Gb of memory installed on this system.
Why can’t I say this isn’t what you expect of Linux? Because it is what you expect of Linux, that’s why.
On 10/12/2011 07:16 PM, lesliedellow wrote:
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> I have just tried installing Open Suse, because I thought I should at
> least try to persuaded myself that I like Linux, and it told me that it
> couldn’t use a graphical interface for the installation because there
> weren’t 94Mb of memory availabe.
never ever saw a error message like that…
how did you get it? did you try to install from inside a running copy of
Windows? or did you boot from an install disk? and, did you do this
prior to beginning the install (to check the integrity of the install
medium): http://tinyurl.com/3qde66h
> Actually there are 4Gb of memory installed on this system.
>
> Why can’t I say this isn’t what you expect of Linux?
nice to meet you also… are you always so jovial?
> Because it is what you expect of Linux, that’s why.
no, that is not what i expect from linux, not at all…
but, if something else works for you, then stick with it!! pay whatever
price they are asking for it…i’m sure it is worth more…
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems
how did you get it? did you try to install from inside a running copy of
Windows? or did you boot from an install disk?
I booted from the installation DVD.
but, if something else works for you, then stick with it!! pay whatever
price they are asking for it…i’m sure it is worth more…
I think Microsoft might be heading for another Windows Vista with Windows 8, so I thought I would give Linux one more try, but I should have known better.
I will also try to make you a bit more talkative. You are welcome here, but you should take in accoun that we are all volunteer fellow openSUSE users. And as suchthat we are rather normal human beings not clairvoyant.
Thus now we know that you used the DVD and booted from it. That is OK.
But we still do not know where, when in what situation you got that error. During install and when yes, whereabout in the whole sequence? When later, please explain.
We are not used to getting that error and are curious about it and willing to help, but we are at the other sideof the globe and cannot see what happens at your place.
Hi
32 or 64bit install? Strange, I have openSUSE 11.4 running with uwm on
256MB of ram…
What is your hardware?
Did you check the md5sum?
I would suggest you try a live CD version first (you can install from
them as well).
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop
up 2 days 17:23, 7 users, load average: 0.18, 0.30, 0.36
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 280.13
@hcvv
After the screen where the kernel is being loaded, there is a screen where the hardware is being detected, then a screen where something or other is being downloaded, and then:
“You computer does not fulfill all requirements for a graphical installation. There is less than 96mb memory or the X sever could not be started.”
As I say, in reality it had 4Gb of memory all to itself - if you leave out the few kilobytes occupied by memory mapped devices. It didn’t even seem too anxious to oblige when I pressed F9 for abort.
There is less than 96mb memory or the X sever could not be started.
There are two clauses in that sentence. Perhaps it’s the second clause that’s true? What’s your graphics hardware?
Nvidia GeForce 6150SE. Does it matter? This is not what I expect from an operating system.
Of course it matters. Not everything is supported. If this is not what you expect, now’s the time to cut your losses.
If you want to program a graphics card, all you have to do is use the protected mode VESA bios. That’s why it was developed.
Hi
How much memory is allocated in the BIOS? Might need to change it to
128MiB
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop
up 2 days 20:18, 7 users, load average: 0.09, 0.15, 0.22
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 280.13
lesliedellow wrote:
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> ken_yap;2393220 Wrote:
>> Of course it matters. Not everything is supported. If this is not what
>> you expect, now’s the time to cut your losses.
>
> If you want to program a graphics card, all you have to do is use the
> protected mode VESA bios. That’s why it was developed.
>
The installer allows you to change the resolution and to switch also to
VESA. Just look at the bottom line of the Welcome screen before you start
installation (I think it is F3 what you have to press, but the function key
is also mentioned in this screen).
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PC: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE 4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420
| 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.2 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram
Try booting with “nomodeset” on the options line + Checkt the proposed resolution in the bootloader. Lower it and see what happens. And … please let us know.
Follow @malcolmlewis’s advice: boot from a LiveCD, that’ll show whether the machine can run openSUSE or not. But I bet Failsafe will do the job. If so, you can install the NVIDIA driver in Failsafe mode, then reboot and see if the situation has improved.
If it makes you feel any better the last time I went to install Windows (Vista) as a virtual machine it could not install as it couldn’t find a CD Rom drive, for example the one it booted the install media from. Yep - that really happened.
I guess I could have just use a Windows Live CD to do what I wanted - oh yeah, they don’t have one.
The fact is, if you use ANY operating system - - from AIX to Solaris to Windows to OS X to Linux - - they all have issues. Sometimes amazingly annoying ones.
The suggestions given so far - using the nomodset kernel boot arg, setting the install resolution, and ensuring enough video memory is allocated in BIOS (if applicable), are a great place to start.
Suse is a great OS, but Linux is not for everyone. OS X and Windows are there if you choose.
Cheers,
On 2011-10-12 23:16, lesliedellow wrote:
> If you want to program a graphics card,
We are not the programmers. We are users like you.
We are here to try to help others, so please try to be polite.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
They do actually - in a number of different flavours. A program caaled Winbuilder creates live Windows CDs. What is more, I have used it to recover from a system crash when my boot manager decided to play up.
As for Open Suse, I finally gave up on it after it had supposedly installed, and then my screen filled with a meaningless garbage resembling nothing on this earth.
I think Mandriva is the only semi civilised version of Linux I have ever come across.
Winbuilder: The tool that lets you build a Windows Live CD off of your existing Windows media. (Same with BartPE, etc.)
I guess that might be handy for someone, and better than nothing. I guess.
Hard to compare that to any Linux Live CD, with a package manger, complete root access, a plethora of networking and file system utilities, running full services from it, using it as a compute node, or a development box at school instead of the locked down environment they provide, etc.
But I digress. . .
Good luck with Mandriva - Mandrake was always a good distro, and I’ve heard good things of Mandriva.
I hope you someday find the Golden OS which never given you any issues 
Lews Therin
“I hope you someday find the Golden OS which never given you any issues”
Linux is free, so its fans might stop to ponder upon why it didn’t long ago put a certain company, located in Redmond, out of business. (That Windows crashes every second Tuesday is a piece of Linux folklore, which in my experience bears no relation to reality.)
lesliedellow wrote:
> That Windows crashes every second Tuesday is a piece of Linux folklore
which in my experience bears no relation to reality.)
>
I doubt anyone here has written something like that, so no reason for such
imputations.
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PC: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE 4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420
| 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.2 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram
I read this and I just have to chuckle a bit. It so reminds me of when I began in Linux over 10 years ago. I had problems to and would go back to Windows. But eventually I got better at Linux. Now I don’t own or use Windows at all. So for me, I experience the complete oposite of what you experienced lesliedellow. Infact, I think you’ll find that true of many of us here. So you need to stop and ask why. I know there are quite a few that have the system ram and the video card you do and no issues, so why are you? Can’t be Linux. Can’t be openSUSE. If it was, then other users would also be complaining of this as well.