Hi, I successfully installed 12.2 on an EeePC 1201K using the “Network
Install” CD. Since the EeePC 1201K has no optical reader, I used an
external USB Samsung DVD reader model SE-S084.
This DVD reader install procedure does not work with 13.1. The
installer hangs shortly after booting with a blank screen.
I suspected a problem with the DVD reader and attempted to workaround
with an SDHC card by downloading unetbootin-linux-585 from
sourceforge.net. I installed libpng12 and p7zip required by unetbootin,
and placed a Samsung 8 Gbyte class 4 SDHC card in the SDHC
card reader. I made unetbootin-linux-585 executable and ran it. Unetbootin
detected the SDHC card as /dev/sb1. I specified a local disk copy of
openSUSE-13.1-DVD-i586.iso as the source. 5833 files are transferred.
When I booted the EeePC 1201K, I pressed “Esc”, to enter the boot
device menu and selected “USB:Multiple Card”. At the next menu, I
selected “linux” to install openSUSE 13.1. The installation of the
Linux kernel begins, but hangs after “Starting udev” with a blank
screen. The disk activity light is busy for a few seconds and then no
more.
I have tried many of the command line options suggested in Internet postings:
acpi=off noacpi clocksource-acpi_pm udevtimeout=60 3, but had no luck.
I have tried turning off the audio, LAN and WLAN in the Bios. No luck.
I tried falling back to 12.3, but that also hangs after “Starting udev”.
Any ideas for overcoming this problem would be much appreciated.
Regards, Roger