Suse 8.1 Installation problem at odd moment

orion846 · 01-13-2003, 03:56 PM

While installing for first time, everything works great and is detected. Believe it or not, my problem comes when it is supposed to select the default software IE: KDE desktop + more. It is standard, should do it on its own, not even dependant on my machine. But it gives an error, selects nothing, and lists nothing to manually select. I tried with the normal CD installation and DVD installation. ANy help? PLEASE I WANT TO USE LINUX TODAY!

snocked · 01-13-2003, 04:34 PM

What's the error it gives?

orion846 · 01-13-2003, 04:38 PM

Something along the lines of unable to find base software. I guess I could go through it to find out exactly if you wanted. Hassle, but oh well. Also I tried changing BIOS to try to boot from DVD drive but I can't figure out which selection is it. HD-0 is primary, HD-1 slave drive, CD-ROM is there, but no DVDROM selection. ANy ideas?

I don't think booting from DVD will help much though since the normal one won't work either.

orion846 · 01-13-2003, 04:44 PM

No base Selection available
ERROR: No proposal

baldy3105 · 01-14-2003, 04:29 AM

There is a entry on the suse support database about this. Its a bug (oops sorry, Linux doesn't have bugs does it? Only windows has bugs - must remember), its an undocumented feature. If you abort, confirm abort, then hit return 3 times install will restart and this time will go OK.

orion846 · 01-14-2003, 10:47 AM

Yup it worked, thanks a million.