Install

[Rog1]

I'm beating this old horse to death. I have Win 2000 Pro installed on a proprietary 20gig SCSI Gateway hard drive (in an old Gateway PIII box) using the entire drive as one partition. I have an old distro of SUSE 10.1. When I run the install it will shrink the partition for me. MY only problem with is the install does not complete the install. It is thought to be a damaged CD. I have downloaded version 10.3. When I run the install it will run a probe on the hardware. It always comes back with no hardware found when it reaches the hard drive. This happens regardless if the HD is already partitioned by 10.1 or with Win 2000 on the entire drive. I am going to try another distro (Ubantu) and see if I any better luck. I just don't understand why 10.1 see's the HD and 10.3 can't find one. Was something left out of 10.3 that had been in 10.1. I don't get it. Any body have any answers!

[techieMoe]

How is the harddrive attached to the computer? IDE? Serial ATA? SCSI? I'd give Ubuntu a shot first, but I'm just as curious as to why your harddrive isn't detected.

[Rog1]

I'ts an old Gateway that came pre-configured with a SCSI drive. It's really strange that 10.1 finds the HD and 10.3 does not. I run another PC box with XP Pro. I want to use this old Gateway to play with Linux on a seperate partition and Win 2000 Pro on the other partition.

[Rog1]

Since the auto install Distro does not see my harddrive, is there a way to manually force it see the harddrive?

[gogalthorp]

Check out his page it may be the solution

Hacking openSUSE 10.3 - Sofware in Review

[Rog1]

Check out his page it may be the solution

Hacking openSUSE 10.3 - Sofware in Review

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This site was just what I needed. See below:

Prerequisites

If you are coming to this guide after having installed openSUSE, hopefully you added installation repositories during the install process. It's much easier to install software on demand when you don't have to use the openSUSE DVD or CD set around. The official installation repos -- the OSS and the NON-OSS only, not Sources or DEBUG -- contain most of the files you need to create your preferred operating environment. The last few files you'll need will come from third-party repos; instructions for adding these and the official installation repositories (if you missed it during installation) are listed below.

"Hacking openSUSE 10.3" applies only to the x86 and AMD64/EM64T processor architectures. It does not cover the PowerPC architecture. If someone who has such a machine is willing to contribute a section specific to PPC, please email me at jem at thejemreport.com.
DVD mounting and playback problems, IDE hard drive performance issues

A problem with openSUSE's ATA driver may cause some people with parallel ATA (IDE) hard drives to experience performance problems, and CD/DVD drive issues. There's a quick fix for this that is easy to test. Restart your computer, and when you get to the green openSUSE boot screen, type this in:

hwprobe=-modules.pata

The letters you type should show up in a field near the bottom of the screen. Press Enter to boot your system with the new option. If the problem goes away, you will need to add this option to your GRUB configuration permanently. To do so, start YaST (for instructions on how to do this, see other parts of this guide) and click on the System tab, then Boot Loader Configuration. Click Edit to modify the default configuration, then type in the same line shown above in the Optional Kernel Command Line Parameter field. There will be other settings in this field as well. Just add a single space after the last setting, then type the same line you typed in at the boot splash screen.

The hwprobe command did the trick. I got 10.3 installed and all updated. Thanks for your help.

[gogalthorp]

Good show