[plug] Que? Kernel panics during install?

[Derek Fountain]

> Today I tried installing Suse 8.2 on a P4 2.4/1024/40 server. All would be
> just swell until it came to between 11% and 25% the way through the install
> and then there would be a kernel panic and things wouldn't go any further.
> I tried a variety of install packages from a custom selection to minimal
> (no gui) selection always with the same result (actually, tell a lie, on
> the first occasion it spat the dummy when it came across a dodgy "terminfo"
> package and I tried to reinstall it). I don't know how to debug this and
> was wondering if anyone had come across such strange behaviour.

It could be the ACPI problem which occasionally makes life difficult on 
certain machines. Do a search for "ACPI" in the SuSE support database, or 
have a look here for general guidance and a list of options:

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/81_acpi.html

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...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, 
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