jsykes

Burned iso image onto cd's. Boots up fine, but after I select 'Installation' it loads the linux loader and then goes to a blank screen with a blinking cursor. This happen to both the 8.2 and 9.1 versions of Suse. Any ideas? One image is from the Novell-Linux dvd. Driving me nuts!!! I even tried the other options, ie. safe install, no acpi option, etc. Thanks for any help. [Edited by jsykes on 2004-07-06 19:00:16]

Very true Danleff. Older gateway did not work. E3400 models (both tower and desktop) would not accept any type of burned cd's or dvd from Novell. Newer models worked without issues. Installed SUSE 9.1 and Groupwise 6.5 and it works great! Thank you for your help. Much appreciated in times of stress and confusion. Best of luck to you all. 8)

The 8.2 version consists of iso files on dvd, but the 9.1 version has the image on dvd. I have been using cdrw's on a cdburner, but i think I will switch over to cdr. Hoping to reuse the cd's (waste not, want not sort of thing). No combo drives here at work. CD/DVD worked fine on another computer. Dang old Gateways. That should teach me to rummage through the junkyard. [Edited by jsykes on 2004-07-07 14:24:24]

Thank you for that. I did burn it top speed in Nero. I will retry with the lower burn setting. Odd how the dvd disc from Novell also brought up this issue. Thank you for your quick response!