SuSE

I apologize in advance if this is the wrong forum for this



Alright, I am a long time Microsoft user (games of course). I have installed Linux in the past, but not on this computer. Brand new computer, have been using it extensively for the past month or so, and recently I just had the urge to install linux on it and play around with it a little more (educational purposes mainly)

I have a retail CD I bought years ago of Linux SUSE 10.1

When I try to install it, it boots from the CD and then goes to the installation menu. I select 'install' (logical choice ) It sits there a minute, then tells me there is no CDROM drive attached to the computer


Ok, confused, I mean there is obviously a CDROM drive (I booted from it in the first place) IIRC when I selected 'view installed CDROM drives/hard drives' it came up empty.

I decided to try another source, so I downloaded Installing Debian GNU/Linux via the Internet the I386 build of Debian (which I believe is the correct one)

Yet it does the exact same thing. No CDROM drive attached



Any idea what could possibly be the issue? Obviously it works fine in Vista and BIOS recognizes it just fine. I looked through the BIOS settings just to make sure nothing popped out at me, which nothing looked promising


(for reference this is my computer custom gaming laptops - Welcome to Sager Notebooks )



Thank you for your time

moved to "linux" forum...

@is it an dvd drive in your laptop, or is it the blueray drive (also available at the link you provided...)?

Also, check to see if it's a SCSI, SATA or an EIDE drive. It's probably SATA, which I don't know anything about. If it's SCSI, I can see why there would be problems. If it's EIDE, yeah something's strange.

try downloading a new dvd of the linux distro.
i dotn keep tabs on suse numbering, but i think that version is kinda old.
and old linux might have issues fixed in new linux versions
specially with compatibility with new devices (like your dvd drive)

It is a SATA DVD drive (surprised me), and since it didn't seem to see my Hard Drive either (also SATA) that is likely the problem

I suspected it could be my build was outdated, which is why I tried downloading and installing Debians version of linux too (you have to pay for SUSE) but it had the same problem

Are there any other disturbutions out there that you recommend I try? (just looking for a simple version of linux, and I'm a sucker for shiny guis I mainly want to test out WINE and see how well it works) Or any other ideas or things I may have done wrong?




Thank you for the quick responses

a very simple linux is ubuntu... but it is also debian based... maybe gentoo is a good option for you (but not an easy one!).

good luck

try the lastest ubuntu.
if it dosnt work, then we have another problem