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Re: suse

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From: Lozz
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 19:33
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You can  install Suse on a 1Gb disk if you wanted to.

Had some trouble myself with some distros. If it happens at the
autodetect of hardware check that you grafix card is compatible.

Lozz

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 18:58:39 GMT, openglass@yahoo.com (DiskDoctor)
wrote:

>I am having one heck of a time trying to install suse. I have tried 5
>different cdroms and do not believe this is the problem. yast starts
>but then errors out almost right after its starts. I have set the
>computer to boot from cdrom and it will bot off a 98 cd but not the
>suse disks 1 or 2. I am working with the newest suse from the net 7.3.
>I have a boot floppy from the suse ftp sight that does indeed boot but
>as soon as it trys the cdrom it fails. I am running a 500 amd k6 5
>with 256 megs of ram. I cannot figure out whats stopping the install.
>I started out with a 6 gig, then tried a 20, 10 and a 8 gig. Is their
>some kind of trick?
>TIA
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