AndrewxUK
March 27th, 2011, 04:03 PM
HP Pavilion Media Center 873n circa 2003
Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz
2.0 GB Ram
2 HDDs - WD 350GB & Seagate 250GB
ATI Raedon x1300 video card
IDE controller on the motherboard - Intel 82801DB (ICH4) reported
Installing from DVD supplied with "Ubuntu Unleashed" 2011 edition (also tried downloaded 10.10, 10.04, 9.04 CDs - same result)
openSuse is installed on first HDD (sda) with no problems
Standard install hangs with the logo and flashing dots screen.
Text-based install hangs attempting to partition sdb.
I then pre-defined the partions on SDB using Suse as
30GB root ext2
200GB home ext2
20GB swap
Selected all the boot mode options (acpi=off noapic etc)
Then used Manual partitioning and selected to use this setup.
Install now hangs "Installng the base system" "Retrieving ntpdate"
1) What further diagnostics can I do? (I am a complete linux beginner).
2) Suse runs ok - can I install Ubunto from within Suse, if so can I use the Suse kernel within Ubuntu?
thanks
Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz
2.0 GB Ram
2 HDDs - WD 350GB & Seagate 250GB
ATI Raedon x1300 video card
IDE controller on the motherboard - Intel 82801DB (ICH4) reported
Installing from DVD supplied with "Ubuntu Unleashed" 2011 edition (also tried downloaded 10.10, 10.04, 9.04 CDs - same result)
openSuse is installed on first HDD (sda) with no problems
Standard install hangs with the logo and flashing dots screen.
Text-based install hangs attempting to partition sdb.
I then pre-defined the partions on SDB using Suse as
30GB root ext2
200GB home ext2
20GB swap
Selected all the boot mode options (acpi=off noapic etc)
Then used Manual partitioning and selected to use this setup.
Install now hangs "Installng the base system" "Retrieving ntpdate"
1) What further diagnostics can I do? (I am a complete linux beginner).
2) Suse runs ok - can I install Ubunto from within Suse, if so can I use the Suse kernel within Ubuntu?
thanks