Help With linux 9.3 - New build

[Theone419]

Please help me i did not know where to post this, after i saw the spot for linux fourms then i thought that i should post here, anyways i have Suse linux Pro 9.3
Here is the product that i have

http://s61.photobucket.com/albums/h41/homeslice24/?action=view&current=103_7182.jpg

Last time i tried to install this it would not let me i forgot the reason why but i just recentley built a new computer i think that the hardware was to advanced for it. Right now i have a dualboot Windows XP pro sp3 , Windows Vista home premium and i have made a 35 Gb space set aside for linux (Basic install) So basically i would like help installing this, I have not done a triple boot in a long time.

Here are my system specs:

Windows-Windows XP5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3

Internet Explorer-7.0.5730.13

Memory (RAM)-2047 MB

CPU Info-AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+

CPU Speed-3012.3 MHz

Sound card - Sound Blaster Audigy

Display Adapters - NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT | NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT | LogMeIn Mirror Driver | NetMeeting driver | RDPDD Chained DD

Screen Resolution - 1280 X 1024 - 32 bit

Network - Network Present

Network Adapters - NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller #2 - Packet Scheduler Miniport

CD / DVD Drives - E: LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S | L: LX3709G FRN747G | M: EZBSYS ISO CDVD DRIVE

COM Ports - COM1

LPT Ports - LPT1

Mouse - 16 Button Wheel Mouse Present

Hard Disks - C: 134.5GB | D: 127.9GB | F: 79.9GB | G: 67.3GB | O: 35.7GB

Hard Disks - Free - C: 33.6GB | D: 36.5GB | F: 14.8GB | G: 1.7MB | O: 35.6GB

USB Controllers - 2 host controllers.

Firewire (1394) - 1 host controllers.

PCMCIA (Laptops) - Not Installed

Manufacturer - Phoenix Technologies, LTD

BIOS Info - AT/AT COMPATIBLE | 10/29/07 | Nvidia - 42302e31

Time Zone - Pacific Standard Time

Motherboard - ASUSTeK Computer INC. M2N-SLI DELUXE

[scrarfussi]

why dont you try a newer version eg 10.3 or 11 9.3 is abit out dated and might noit support some of your current hardware

[Theone419]

Well now that i have gone to install it everything works as it should but, the setup cannot locate my hard drive (Error:error "No hard drive found", and it says to specify mount point manually or use update cd for install.) I have a WD3200JBRTL WDC hdd and my partitions look like this

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h41/homeslice24/Acronis.jpg

Unallocated is for the linux it should automatically make a swap. AND I AM NOT PLANNING ON FORMATTING MY WHOLE DRIVE....Thank you
And just to let you know i have installed linux on this exact hdd before w/o any problems so it is compatible

[scrarfussi]

Aye dude what i'm saying is all new program's require new packages eg firefox 2 or 3 you need a newer version of Gtk all the little things like flash support all require newer packages . By the way formatting only takes 2min and you get a more up to date distro

[gogalthorp]

There is no need to reformat the whole drive just the root partition. You can save all the data in the home partition. Though it would be a good idea to rename ~/.kde or .gnome directories because of the large jump in version.

Also I doubt there is anything wrong with the drive more likely some incompatibility with the new BIOS or other hardware like the controller chips.

Remember you are trying to install an OS that was old before these chips where even designed.

[Theone419]

Thank you for your reply i have just downloaded suse linux enterprise 10, I had bought the other version from a retail store i had no idea you could download it for free. So im goeing to put it on to a dvd and hopefully there will be no problems ill come back and tell you how it went. Happy 4th of july

[Theone419]

Hi all sorry it took so long to reply, I downloaded Suse linux enterprise 10 desktop, it took a while but now its installed everything is working. But i have 2 questions 1, how do i login as a "super user" my current login is "lxuser" and i want to always be a su 2, when the splash screen starts up with all of the text on the screen it askes me to login and when i am logged in i have NO idea how to get on the desktop kde screen like windows.

[bigtomrodney]

superuser is root and it is a terrible idea to log in all the time as root. Actually, you should never log in as root graphically, only through a terminal or when prompted for a root password by a system tool (that you have launched).

You can too easily damage your system when logged in as root, it is the user that your system runs at and has much higher privelege than say Administrator on Windows.

[Theone419]

superuser is root and it is a terrible idea to log in all the time as root. Actually, you should never log in as root graphically, only through a terminal or when prompted for a root password by a system tool (that you have launched).

You can too easily damage your system when logged in as root, it is the user that your system runs at and has much higher privelege than say Administrator on Windows.

Ok i will keep that in mind, its easy to login to "System" on windows lol anyways the other problem that i had was how to login correctley lets say i want to get to the login screen that looks something like this

http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/doc/suse/suse9.3/suselinux-adminguide_en/images/i_y2_kde_login.png

But i get a screen like this to login at and when i do it stays there with a command prompt

http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/docs/vl50/images/vl5dyn/vd5-boot.png

I think the problem is that the xserver is failing to start because i get a error about it and i read on another forum that it drops u back to the cmd

That would be a long shot.

Basically, when the computer boots and fails to start X it will drop you back to a command prompt. Here is your chance to manually configure the hardware that is on your system for use in Linux. It's not complicated at all, and only requires that you know the specs of your box.

At the command prompt enter this:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[yancek]

The command from your last post is for Debian based, specifically Ubuntu.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Use Yast to configure things on opensuse. You might check your /etc/inittab file to see if it is set to run-level 5. Should have an entry like this near the top of the file:

# The default runlevel is defined here
id:5:initdefault:

If you have a 5 as above, it is a different problem but check this first. If it fails, post the exact error message you get as that should help.