Installation Troubles

[Jesma]

first off, for system specs i have

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Windsor 2.0GHz Socket AM2 Dual Core
ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI

i have win xp x64 currently installed and im trying to install suse 10 on a seperate partition that i created when installing windows

letalone that the partition may be a problem, i cant even get to a screen that lets me address that!

when trying to install suse 10 (enterprise desktop) off the disk, i get the initial installation options screen. i select to install and bam, the screen blacks out, and the cd sits and spins for about 5 min before stopping. according the the novell site, after this initial install screen i see im supposed to then go to a selection screen for partition management. the screen never came back. i had to reboot, which it did normally, back to windoze.

anyone have any idea what is going on here?

[gogalthorp]

first off, for system specs i have

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Windsor 2.0GHz Socket AM2 Dual Core
ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI

i have win xp x64 currently installed and im trying to install suse 10 on a seperate partition that i created when installing windows

letalone that the partition may be a problem, i cant even get to a screen that lets me address that!

when trying to install suse 10 (enterprise desktop) off the disk, i get the initial installation options screen. i select to install and bam, the screen blacks out, and the cd sits and spins for about 5 min before stopping. the screen never comes back. i had to reboot, which it did normally, back to windoze.

anyone have any idea what is going on here?

Maybe bad media?? Where did you get the disk??

[Jesma]

the disk is from the novell booth at linux world. i have 2 of them and tried both.

[ijt]

Hi,
Had the same exact trouble. Just follow bigtomrodney's instructions found in the first 'sticky' thread of this forum. Solved my problems just yesterday.

The problem is w/NVIDIA drivers.

Hope this helps.
Jack

[oldcpu]

i select to install and bam, the screen blacks out, and the cd sits and spins for about 5 min before stopping. according the the novell site, after this initial install screen i see im supposed to then go to a selection screen for partition management. the screen never came back.

Did you try the "Installation - Safe" setting? Do you still get the same problem with that?

[teebs]

try opting for F3 on the boot options before choosing installation and go for 1024x800 screen res.

[Jesma]

so i used "safe" settings and instead of stalling on a black screen, it stalled on the default blue novell suse linux whatever screen. so i started over and did it in text only mode. this time it stalled at "configuring USB devices" which i thought was odd. so i guess what i'll do next is detach all those and drag out my old school ps/2 junk and see how that works. oooooh joy