hdd install quagmire

[Joseph Schiller]

Hi,

It seems that I have offended you. I offer you my sincere apologies, you possess greater knowledge base on Knoppix than I ever hope to possess. It seems an easy solution now, but we both missed the boat on the BIOS. For one thing, I could boot from the ISOLINUX CD (the big clue was the LVM module), but hdd install was a different matter. I am sure that 8.4, 32, and 137 GB hurdles are still out there. I posted a solution, and I am installing Knoppix, BTW. In SuSE there's no need to edit /etc/resolv.conf manually, in fact when I tried in Vim, I could not write to the file. Everything is handled by YaST2 under Network. When I config'd Knoppix kppp, I had to try each of the different devices for the internal modem. In YaST2, the script auto detects and configures everything, all I needed to add was the ISP dial-up number and password. I couldn't have done it without your help. Thanks again.

Regards,

Joseph Schiller

[rickenbacherus]

Never heard of a Commate mobo before. Sounds like a nuissance. Of course I would know about nuissance mobo's since I have an IBM S30 (whatever that is) and interstingly enough I have never been able to get SuSE installed on that box or I'd have tried it aeons ago. Thanks for posting your solution.

[xbob]

Hopefully you can get it to finish installing.

For the heck of it, I tried to install again and it worked. My problem with install appeared to be the power management screen shut off as you first suspected. During the install on my machine, the screen shuts off for power management when the install is ~98% complete. I caught it right at that point and refreshed the display with a tap of the space bar, and I am up and running!

Apparently my motherboard or knoppix does not like the power management screen shutdown to be active when using the knx-install script?

Thanks for your help.

[rickenbacherus]

Apparently my motherboard or knoppix does not like the power management screen shutdown to be active when using the knx-install script?

Thanks for your help.

Anything's possible -I don't turn off APM for an install but I do make sure not to hit keys too often. I do know that you can't (shouldn't) leave an install alone for too long after it finishes because something gets jammed up and it won't finish. I dunno.........

Glad you got it working tho.