No graphical installation in Mandrake 9.1 (standard)

[Seth]

I just bought the Mandrake (standard) 9.1 and attempted to install it on my 2nd HD. If I choose any other methods (vgalo, linux, expert, noauto) besides text, my computer freezes up.
I rebooted my machine to XP Pro to double check the video card (GeForce4 Ti 128 MB) and it is working fine.
I even checked the BIOS to make sure PNP OS was disabled.
What gives ?

[Seth]

Arrghhh..   :mad:  
I exchanged it for Suse 8.2.    
It was all click here, and click there.
30 minutes, tops.
Wow, the default desktop with KDE is, well, pretty cool.      
I guess I'll have to finish reading the manual to figure out how to run it properly.
It even displyed the Windows partitions.
kewl!

[ September 22, 2003: Message edited by: Seth ]

[Refalm]

I have a GeForce 4 MX 440 128 MB and I had no problems installing Mandrake at all... the default GUI was also KDE and it detected all my partitions, USB, and stuff...

[Seth]

I did a little google and came across this site  where SuSE 8.2's GUI installer also fails as it did on me.

[Seth]

I emailed SuSE about it and here is their reply:

Hello Mr. <name deleted>.

Looks like you're running a machine with at least 1 GB RAM and 128 MB graphics memory. Currently you'll need the boot parameter

  mem=768m

for starting a graphical installation with SuSE 8.1 on such a
machine. Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Stefan Dirsch

I had asked about the 8.2 version but his replied for the 8.1 version.... :confused:

My card is PNY GeForce4 Ti 4400 128MB DDR RAM.

Now, if someone can tell me how to set up in the mem in the boot parameter.....   :confused:

[ September 25, 2003: Message edited by: Seth ]

[flap]

I thought you'd managed to get it installed?

[Seth]

flap,
    Yes, I installed SuSE 8.2 via the text mode.
 
Btw, for the experts on SuSE....
My mobo (ASUS A7N8X Deluxe) comes with builtin two LAN ports....and I use a NETGEAR 311FA pci card.
They are assigned as eth0, eth1 and eth2.
The PCI card is the eth1. How do I disable the other two (eth0 eth2) ?
Because everytime I boot in I have to configure  the eth1 (module netsame? for NETGEAR) manually as a su just to get online.
Yes, everytime I boot into SuSE I can not get online unless I reconfigure the Network cards.
During the bootprocess I can see that eth1 and eth2 have 'failed'.

And what is process 1670 ? Sometimes I keep getting these endless little popup windows that fills the whole desktop saying it has caused a 'fatal error' and the only solution is to pull the power on my computer?

Help!

[flap]

ok, re the boot parameter; when you boot from the cd and reach the boot prompt, you should be able to type
linux mem=768
and press enter to boot with that parameter.

Do you mean a process with an id of 1670? Type
ps --pid 1670
to find out what it is.

[Seth]

Thanks, flap.
Yes, it is the process with the id of 1670.
And no I can't check on it because every time I boot into SuSE my whole desktop gets filled with these endless pop ups with the message that something has caused a fatal error and would I like to report it...etc ?
I cant even get to the terminal.
Actually, I tried yesterday...every little pop up I'd close, another one would pop up again.
It was kinda fun.  
I think I probably did something wrong when I downloaded the linux driver off the ASUS site for my nForce chipset and intalled it.
It is a no biggie. I 'll just reinstall SuSE again.
I'd like to think of this as a learning process, albeti a steep one. : (

And on the mem=768, when I boot with the disc, and after the SuSE's logo plus the welcomes (various languages) , I get to the Boot Screen. From here if I choose anything beside the text mode, my monitor will just go blank.
Really, it is no problem because I am pretty comfortable with the text mode. I even did this with the Mandrake 9.1 because I wanted to learn.
So far, only RH's anaconda has been able to get me into the gui mode.
Again, thank you.

[flap]

Once you've booted into X you can use Alt-F2 to switch to a virtual terminal and then login and run ps to find out what the process is.

Does the suse setup program not have an option to pass particular parameters to the kernel on startup?

[Seth]

quote:Once you've booted into X you can use Alt-F2 to switch to a virtual terminal and then login and run ps to find out what the process is.

Yep, I tried it. As I suspected...somehow I installed the .rpm (off ASUS) for the wrong version.
Doh!

Let's see....rpm -ivh .rpm is for install
             rpm -Uvh .rpm is for upgrade
             rpm -q   .rpm is for query
             rpm -qi  .rpm is to display package info
             rpm -ql  .rpm is list the files in the package
             rpm --checksig .rpm to check RPM sig
             rpm -e   .rpm is to uninstall the packages
            Umm...am I right ?

 

quote:
Does the suse setup program not have an option to pass particular parameters to the kernel on startup?

Sorry, no idead here.
As I said, after the welcomes, I get to the Boot Screen and I have only one option from here....and form here YaST takes over (Text version).