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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.   :D  
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 ]

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