suse 9.2 format problem

[vicchapman]

Hallo there

Tried to load suse9.2 onto my XP machine, the idea was to have
a dual bootup. I'm using unused(20GB) space on my 120GB hard drive.
Everyting goes OK up to the part where the drives needs to be formatted.
It gets to part where the program says "format complete" and after this
nothing happens, not even after 8 hours.
I tried the same procedure with suse9.1 and had no problem, the
installation completed sucessful.

After this I tried to install 9.2 over the 9.1. First time I chose "new installation" and it got stuck at the format part.

I repeated the whole process but chose "update installation". This time it got stuck at "examining root partition".

Any ideas ??

[bryansmith]

Hi vicchapman,

This is probably a very inefficient solution but maybe you could install 9.1 and update it as much as possible. Get a new kernel, new version of KDE (or whatever WM you use) and just update whatever else is necessary for you. You might want to try this as a last resort though since this is time-consuming, bandwidth-consuming and most likely not the best solution.

Hope that helps,
Bryan