SUSE 11 Live cd - Help Needed


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i've downloaded the suse 11 live cd(KDE4 version)...

upon booting from it, he kernel starts loading, but after some time it asks for linux login, upon entering linux, it just says Have a great time, and then linux@linux:`> appears... now i dont know what to do after it...

however, i ran the same live cd on another system, everything worked fine, no login ws asked, and the desktop appeared normally...

also no such problem occurs with the ubuntu 8.04 live cd...

and i've used both the x64, and x86 versions, but got the same results with both of them...

my system:

Core 2 duo e4500

Intel DG33FB motherboard

MSI 8500gt graphic card

Corsair 2x1gb 667Mhz RAM

Hitachi 160Gb SATAII (4 ntfs partitions, WIN Vista SP1 installed)

the system on which the live cd ran:

Intel Celeron 1.8Ghz

Soyo P4VGM motherboard

384Mb RAM

Maxtor 40Gb IDE (3 partitions, WINXP SP2 installed)

i am a newbie at linux, so any help/suggestions are really needed here...

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used the startx command...

but all it says is that the x server is a pre-release... for bugs and fixes contact (some websites are mentioned)...

after it again the linux@linux: appears...

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If Ubuntu worked fine as a LiveCD, I wouldn't struggle too much with SUSE on that hardware (especially since you said the SUSE LiveCD works on other computers, so you can see what it looks like).

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the problem is, the cd is only giving the option of running the desktop, there is no direct installation option...

i have seen the direct installation boot option in the screenshots on the suse website... but there is no such option in the live cd ive got...

the other option for me to install suse, would be to download the DVD iso, but on my 512k dsl it would a lot of time, so im trying to avoid that option...

anyways... this is screesnshot of what get when get after giving the login and the startx command...

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is there a way of bypassing the desktop, or running the installation from the command line??

coz im certainly getting the command shell, only the desktop isnt showing up...

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Possibly, but if you can't boot into a proper live cd environment, it would be fair to assume that a full installation will have the same problem, so you're effectively wasting your time.

I agree with Mark. You've "seen" Suse by testing the cd in another PC. You know the Ubuntu live CD works. Personally, I'd install Kubuntu (if you're after the KDE desktop).

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the reason i was persisting with suse was the KDE environment..so im going to try Kubuntu now...

thanks for the help...

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found what was causing the problem: the graphic card...

switched to the internal graphics and now the live cd is running fine...

also tried Kubuntu... but got annoyed pretty quickly... on vesa drivers there is no problem, but on the proprietary nvidia drivers the resolution doesnt go above 800x600...

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You had to login in the command line, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replace your driver by vesa. But if it is fine, good luck with SUSE, and be sure to upgrade to KDE 4.1 next week, it will be much more usable.

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