suse 8.2 hangs during installation

[Andre Fuechsel]

Hi,

during installation of Suse 8.2 on my notebook with Windows XP on the first
partition the setup does not work: During system analysis the system hangs.

If you go to another virtual console it can be seen, that "df" is eating up
all CPU time. The system tried to mount /dev/hda1 -t ntfs, which is really
mounted but seems not to be working. Why the hell does the setup mount this
partition (in read/write mode! Thought, NTFS rw mode was experimental?)
anyway?

I read something in the Google archive of Suse 8.2 having an old NTFS
driver. How can I load a new driver before installation? And why worked
everything fine with Suse 7.3?

Any help appreciated.

A.


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André Füchsel
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[mjt]

Andre Fuechsel wrote:

> If you go to another virtual console it can be seen, that "df" is eating
> up all CPU time. The system tried to mount /dev/hda1 -t ntfs, which is
> really

.... in the section during the install where you can specify
which filesystems to include at boot time, EXCLUDE the
NTFS partition.

also, you COULD kill the df process (although i'm confused
why it "continues" to run)
..
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[Andre Fuechsel]

mjt <mjtobler@removethis_consultant.com> wrote in news:Uf4ab.1000$W33.878
@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com:

> ... in the section during the install where you can specify
> which filesystems to include at boot time, EXCLUDE the
> NTFS partition.

There is no such section. The one and only thing Yast asks is the language
of the installation process. If I choose manual installation, I can add or
remove kernel modules but then the problem is the same.

> also, you COULD kill the df process (although i'm confused
> why it "continues" to run)

It is not possible to kill the process! I tried every signal from 1 to 15!
No chance! The disk does not making any noise, so I think, df doesn't do
anything but hangs in a deadlock with the NTFS driver.

I don't even know, why it TREIS to perform a df on an NTFS partition! Is
there any kernel parameter, where I can specify the partion which should be
used for installation?

I never had so much troubles with all my previous Linux-installations :-(

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André Füchsel
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[mjt]

Andre Fuechsel wrote:

> It is not possible to kill the process! I tried every signal from 1 to 15!
> No chance!

.... might do a "ps -auxf" and see who owns it.
..
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