Re: SusE 8.2 on Sony Vaio

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 12:56, John S. Andersen wrote:
> On 31 Jul 2003 at 13:00, Jonathan C. Sitte wrote:
> 
> > Quoting "[email protected]" <[email protected]>:
> > 
> > > Sorry if the thechnical content of this mail is below standard. 
> Can
> > > anyone tell me why my sony pcg-FR215M hangs when trying to 
> install
> > > suse 8.2 linux distribution...(it seems to be hanging on 
> YaST...)I
>  ... 
> > I have not used that particular laptop but I can tell you that if 
> you
> > want to have a better experience with linux as a beginner I suggest
> > using RedHat as my first choice or Mandrake as my second. 
> 
> This suggestion generally falls under the category of UN-HELPFULL and
> is generally frowned upon on this list.
> 
> SuSE is what he has, and SuSE is what he wants to run.  
> 
> If your Ford won't start you would be a little put out if the best 
> advice anyone had to offer was to go get a Chevy.  
> 

True and I fully agree.

> Further, your assertions are simply not true for the following 
> reasons:
> 
> 1)Both Mandrake and RedHat OFTEN require kernel compiles to get
>    ACPI running, SuSE 8.x does not.  SuSE out of the box generally
>    figures out Sony laptops quite nicely, especially from 8.1 on.
> 

not to pick nits, but Mandrake 9.1 does not require kernel compilation
for ACPI.
...
> To maherpaul:
> 
> Shift to console 10 (ctrl-F10) just before you get to the place
> where it hangs, and watch what its doing to see is you can
> see what was running just before the lockup.

I'm not a SuSE guy, so this is a guess, but it's probably not able to
install from the firewire drive. A hard drive or network install would
be the next easiest options.
-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...