Probably aimed at FL 310, but can anyone offer suggestions for the following, please?
I am now on my > 20th attempted install of Linux!! Just as well I was made redundant
I have tried both SUSE and Red Hat. The attempts proceed as far as starting to configure X11 (for SUSE) or Xfree86 (for Red Hat). The SUSE install fails because both keyboard and mouse operations cease and the computer totally freezes. (during the installation prior to this, the mouse installation fails, no matter which option I select). The Red Hat install fails during the Xconfigurator attempt to install an appropriate video card. (every selection I make - even generics - are shown as 'server nor recognised') Interestingly, the mouse is both recognised, and operates correctly, in Red Hat.
The installation is being made onto 'clean' partitions, properly formatted for Linux as /root, /usr and a swap file. The machine is a 'bitsa' which had some initial hardware problems which have now been resolved - P 166, 48 Mbs RAM and a 2.1 Gbs H/D. This same hardware installs W 98 without a whimper, so, presumably, is OK. I suppose I could just use the Red Hat version as a command line system but I would rather like to explore the GUI versions as compared with the dreaded Windoze.
