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Installation oddity
By: rekha singh | 28 Mar 2010 4:52 pm
I'm in the middle of a major reorganization of the computers in the house and I've hit something I've not seen in fifteen years with Linux: Ubuntu installs just fine; Opensuse installs but is buggy and unstable (trouble with Yast and sound); Kubuntu refuses to install altogether.
I wonder if anyone else has seen anything like this?
Motherboard: Asus M4A785-M (huge hard drives with conservative partitioning)
CommentsThere's a huge difference between Ubuntu 9.10 and Kubuntu based on 8.x, and theres a difference between OpenSuSE 10 and 11.
Also, you need to actually SAY what's happening. Refuses to install?nDoes a box pop up and say "I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can not allow you to do that." Do you get error messages? what problems specifically that you don't see on the others?
I wonder if anyone else has seen anything like this?
Motherboard: Asus M4A785-M (huge hard drives with conservative partitioning)
Define "huge hard drives with conservative partitioning" . And we need more than just the mainboard. What other hardware? IDE, SAS or SATA? Any raid? Video card? You mentioned sound issues, what sound card?
You need to be a little more specific as these are very generic statements and right now there are just WAY too many variables to really troubleshoot. Your problem could be anything from a bad CD/DVD ISO or burned disk to random interstellar nano-particles attracted to systems generating a specific electro-magnetic signature that is created with a particular OS performs certain low-level operations on silicone based computer chips.
Ok, well, I just made that last bit up, but still, you get the idea.
So write back and give us more specific info on what problems you're seeing, what kind of hardware, etc...
By: rekha singh | 28 Mar 2010
It could be you have some bad CD/DVD's.
If you didn't check the hardware against the distro's compatibility list, then maybe some of your hardware is incompatible. If the correct drivers are available on the distro, things won't function.
You could have intermittent problems with one of your sticks of RAM.
I tried installing Mint on this computer I am using now... wouldn't install. So I installed CentOS... runs like a dream.
My last distro on this machine was RHEL3... it ran great for over five years. I'm guessing that CentOS 5.4 is close enough to RHEL3 hardware-wise, that it was a perfect fit.
If it runs for the next five years as well as RHEL3 did, I'll be a happy camper!
By: rekha singh | 28 Mar 2010
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