pete.morgan

Guys I am new to the linux O/S (years of working with, and becoming an expert at Windows), so after a bit of investigation I choose Suse8.2 as my starting point. Unfortuanatley I dont seem to be getting very far, as the install process freezes up on me everytime (have tried all options off the install list). Basic system specs are the following: Abit NF7-S V2.0 AMD Athlon 2600+ 1GB Corsair XMS3500 (2x512mb Dual Channel) 2 x SATA Western Digital Raptors Raid0 ATI 9700 Pro SB Audigy 2 Belkin USB2 card I boot from CD, and get a menu to select from (three install options), no matter which option I choose after a few seconds the screen goes black and thats how it stays. I take it it doesn't like something in my system, but I'm not sure what, or what I can do about it? Is there anything here that you would say "Yep theres your problem"? Im thinking its probabley the USB2 card, SATA or the Audigy2, can anyone help? I also have WinXP installed (wanted to dual boot), and could do with keeping my extra USB2 ports as I use them all) Cheers Pete.

Just to update, I have resolved the first problem, it doesn't like 1GB of ram. Took one of the 512mb sticks out and it went straight into the install process. Linux doesn't support 1GB of ram? eh? Anyway, guess what, it goes into the install process, askes for a country selection, then says "analysing your system" and just sits there, locked up. I have tried all the various instal options including APIC disabled and safest settings. Have to say I'm not have the best of times here, I'll keep working at it but frankly i think it just doesn't support the modern hardware in my machine.