I've tried three times now and each time it successfully formats my 1.4Gb swap, and then starts to format my 8.3Gb /root - at this point the progress bar jumps straight to 100% immediately. The timer still runs and the mouse-pointer still moves, for a few minutes. Then it totally freezes and I have to pull the plug on the whole thing and restart the machine.

 

Anyone have any idea what could be causing this??

 

I'm installing SuSe 10.1 on a Sony A617B laptop, on the D:\ partition.

Pentium M 1.73ghz

1024 Gb RAM

are you absolutely sure it hangs ? does the cpslock LED do anything if you press CAPSLOCK

 

how long have you waited to see if it's hung ?

 

have you tried reading the RELEASE notes ?

 

cheers

anyweb

Quote:are you absolutely sure it hangs ? does the cpslock LED do anything if you press CAPSLOCK

Didn't try that... I'll give it a whirl a bit later

 

Quote:how long have you waited to see if it's hung ?

The longest I left it was about an hour

 

Quote:have you tried reading the RELEASE notes ?

Ha! Nope. Just downloading the Suse linux reference guide pdf from Novell now.

 

Perhaps I shouldn't be bothering you just yet, eh? :/

I have the same notebook.

 

It's possible to install 'Fedore Core 5' on it but only with the rsolution 800x600.

 

 

Auf dem Vaio VGH A617B l