openSUSE Forums: can install 12.1 but nor 12.2 neither 12.3 (beta)

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can install 12.1 but nor 12.2 neither 12.3 (beta) Jan 27th 2013, 18:25 Hello, I just upgraded one of my Linux User Group laptop, a Lifebook to 1.5Gb ram. It did run openSUSE 11.2, so time to update. Nothing to keep on it, except a Windows XP install. Go figure: I couldn't install 12.2 (from official demo dvd). could neither install 12.3 from downloaded beta dvd, but could install 12.1 from demo dvd without problem. Symptoms are: where the 12.1 dvd reads full speed, configure full speed, the 12.2 is extremely slow. For example the iwp2000* wireless goes stright for 12.1 but waits for several minutes for 12.2. At each time, the 12.2 install fails completely at grub2 install. even when just installing the package (not on installing the boot sector). 12.3 beta went a bit more, but stopped at the boot loader install. The media are verified (from they own menu), ram is Memtest ok. Hard drive is 40Gb. At first it was partitionned as 15Gb XP, rest extended with 500Mb swap, 10 Mb / and 10 Mb /home, but trying to fix grub from the rescue system, I was said that this config did not allow boot loader install, so I removed all but XP and created 10 Gb primary sda2, rest Xtended and swap 2Gb and other linux part. I'm now reinstalling 12.1, looks nice. Do you have an idea why I couldn't install 12.2 or 12.3, and why it's so slow with a ram amount that seems correct? The computer is from 2004, pretty old. I noticed also that bogomips is 2999 in the kernel dmesg, but 1500 in sysinfo, ? this coputer do not hold any datd, only installs, so I can give any info you may need :-), but reinstalling nis pretty long (~one hour for 12.1, 2 or threee hours before loosing patience for the other distros thanks jdd

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