The Goldfish Chronicles

Well, I say installing, closer to not installing.

I’m tyring to install SuSE 8.2 on my replacement machine for umbongo.flamefew.net. That machine is a 4U and I’m looking forward to lowering the rent with this new 1U. I waited for SuSE 8.2 so I could edge myself onto the next round of releases and last a bit longer in the automatic update world.
[Incidentally, http://www.micropro.com have knocked 100 dollars off their cheapest servers]

Anyway. Not much luck with 8.2. The machine had 8.0 on it happily, but 8.2 refuses to get past the install screen, no matter what I try. Various boot options etc. Personally I blame GRUB. SuSE switched to this with 8.2 [or 8.1, I think 8.2 though] and it’s the only new thing to the equation from my point of view.

I’ve removed the old version, googled, searched, and am still basically clueless. I’ve tried CD2, with the same results, re-installed the 8.0 and that continues to work, and am now in a wait state, hoping SuSE support or some genius can tell me what is wrong. Of course, I might be wrong in even thinking that grub is used in the install

This entry was posted on Monday, April 21st, 2003 at 10:03 pm and is filed under Family etc. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.