<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Hi </FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I am new to list as well as Linux in general, so please excuse me if I say or do stupid things.</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>My computer spec</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>asaus k8v - amd64 3200 1gb ram</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>dual sata dual </FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>onboard lan sound</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>raid 200gb Maxtor sata hd </FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>ide dvd rw</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>As the system is brand new before downloading fc2 iso's I installed suse 9.0 which I had to make sure all hardware was ok, suse installed ok and detected all hardware, sata, lan, sound.</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I download fc2 iso's and attempted install which crashed after transferring install image with</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>RuntimeError: /usr/sbin/kudzu kudzu can not be run</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I copied the error file to disk, see head and tail below as it is huge</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Traceback (most recent call last):</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1048, in handleRenderCallback</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>self.currentWindow.renderCallback()</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 242, in renderCallback</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>self.intf.icw.nextClicked()</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 763, in nextClicked</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>self.dispatch.gotoNext()</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 169, in gotoNext</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>self.moveStep()</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 237, in moveStep</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 1127, in doPostInstall</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>stdout = devnull)</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 53, in execWithRedirect</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>raise RuntimeError, command + " can not be run"</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>RuntimeError: /usr/sbin/kudzu can not be run</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>...................lots of other stuff about install</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>/tmp/lvmout:</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>No volume groups found</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Creating directory "/var/lock/lvm"</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Wiping internal cache</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Finding all volume groups</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>/mnt/sysimage/root/install.log:</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Installing 546 packages</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>error: can't create transaction lock</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I believe this to be something to do with the sata side of things as I removed the sata hd and installed a ide 30gb hd and the install worked fine with fc2 detecting all hw.</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I know there is nothing wrong with the bios settings or sata hd as it works fine with suse 9.0 as well as fc1, but fc1 has problems with sound and lan.</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I have tried all bios settings (I think) as well as all the usual noapic noprobe etc but always crashes with same error.</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I would really like to use my 200gb sata hd but do not know where to go from here, please help!</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>One thing I noticed is that when suse installed it configured my sata as sda1 (scsi I thinks) but fc2 configures it ad hde, is this a indication of the problem?</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Thanks in advance.</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Jeff (keen to dump my windoze)</FONT></P></BODY></HTML>