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johnsonha143
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May 18th, 2004 12:00
SUSE 9.1 on a Dimension 2350 & Workstation 400
Hello!
I've installed many linux distributions and have never had so much trouble as I've had with Suse 9.1. I've reseached the problem for a week now and can't really find anyone who has it-yet I have it on two seperate machines (see subj).
I boot the installation disk, then press F2 to see what's going on. The output goes all the way down to the hotplug section where it does a "scanning pci". Then I get some sort of an error which I can't read becasue the text overwrites itself. Then I get "respawning too fast" five times, then it waits for five minutes after which time the respawning too fast runs again.
I have a dell dimension 2350 with an ATI all in wonder card, USR modem (a real modem, not a winmodem), 512mb mem and a 160g hard disk.
If anyone has a problem like this or has seen a problem like this, please, lets discuss it because I'm out of options!
Thanks!
HJ
Waldorf, MD
I've installed many linux distributions and have never had so much trouble as I've had with Suse 9.1. I've reseached the problem for a week now and can't really find anyone who has it-yet I have it on two seperate machines (see subj).
I boot the installation disk, then press F2 to see what's going on. The output goes all the way down to the hotplug section where it does a "scanning pci". Then I get some sort of an error which I can't read becasue the text overwrites itself. Then I get "respawning too fast" five times, then it waits for five minutes after which time the respawning too fast runs again.
I have a dell dimension 2350 with an ATI all in wonder card, USR modem (a real modem, not a winmodem), 512mb mem and a 160g hard disk.
If anyone has a problem like this or has seen a problem like this, please, lets discuss it because I'm out of options!
Thanks!
HJ
Waldorf, MD
Stephan02
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Posted May 24th, 2004 18:00
Here is a tip : remove the modem from the computer (or disable it somehow if you cant remove it) and then try installing SUSE 9.1. I have Googled for "respawning too fast" and a quick scan of results showed that it mostly accurs in combination with modems and/or serial ports. So my advice is to first install SUSE 9.1, and once that works attempt to add the modem.
Greetings,
Stephan