Hello everyone! I am new at using linux, i am trying to calculate pump cavitation. i heard that there is problem with moving mesh at windows base star-cd. so i want to change Win.OS into Linux. I have star-cd v3.26 and v4. and 64 bit Intel(Core2Duo)Processor. which linux do you recommend/

thanz an advance for ur answers!^^

SuSe 10

Thanks Ben, Now there is another problem, when i am installing suse linux 10. First Suse installation windows appears but when i click the install option, it loads some files then it shows "can't find CDROM" messege and it asks for inserting CD1.

In any case thanks a lot for your help!

It is known problem on new Intel Chipset ( i think you have SATA hard disk and IDE DVD/CD and old Linux distributives. You can :

1. Use SuSe 10.2

2. Make ISO-image SuSe 10.0 DVD on your hard drive, and when you will install SuSe choose option "Install from Hard Disk" (not remember exactly)

3. make ftp-mirror of SuSe 10.0 distrib on second machine ... or use INTERNET Mirror

After this installation your CD\DVD will not work But SuSe will work You can recompile Linux-Kernel ( use version later than 2.6.17) ______________________

I think simple way --> install SuSe 10.2 But one guy "Ben" may be against this idea ))

I am indeed against the idea as there is an issue with the new batch shell which will mean you will need to patch star straight away (although you may be ok with that).... on the cd issue, i'm not sure what that is about, try a suse forum

now I am trying to install from hard disk I've already created iso file and save it to c:\linux10.iso direction. Then i reboot the computer,... and i select install from Hard Disk option. there are three partitions ("windows xp pro 64 bit"'s partitions) Hard Disk partitions: sda1 :ntfs sda2 :ntfs sda5 :ntfs I tried to enter the sourse direction, but it can not find image. did anyone have like this problem before. Any advise!

As I said I would find a SuSe forum and ask the same question, sounds like a systems issue to me

thanks Ben i got some information from linux forum, also today i tried to instal openSuSe 10.2, but there is stiil that old problem "can not find cdrom". It didn't solve yet at 10.2 too, but i read at linux forum one guy used IDE->SATA convertor, and he succeed to install suselinux, i think i'll use that convertor maybe it solves the problem... I am using (Sata-Hard Disk and IDE- DVD/CD-rom , intel P965 chipset, processor 64 bit Intel(r) Core(tm)2 cpu 6600 @2.4GHz).

Solved It!!