All right, so I got the 5 CDs with correct MD5 checksums, I put the first one in my CD drive.
The first CD is installed, and then the system reboots. Fine. I boot in SuSe Failsafe, where Yast finishes to install the 4 other CDs. And then, I only manage to have a shell in Fail Safe mode. Normal boot doesn't work. I tried gnome-session, but after a lot of texts, the situation stays the same.
Anybody can help me ?

There is an X configuration tool, but I can't think of the name. I belive you can get to it by running yast2.

<edit> BTW welcome to LQ.

<edit> sax is the name of the X configuration tool.

Why are you booting into failsafe mode? Booting into normal mode will also continue the installation (at least it does with my purchased version).

Well it doesn't with mine - see my other posting!

It appears you are trying to run Gnome, if so try this:

while in text mode, log in, if you aren't logged in as root type su and hit enter then type your root password and hit enter. Next type init 5 and you should be taken to the GUI if everything is installed fine. From there you can log in and open yast and click on System on the left side then on the right, click /etc/sysconfig Editor. On the left side of that window expand the desktop menu by clicking the plus sign next to it. Find display manager and expand it and then click on the first entry under that named DISPLAYMANAGER make sure that says gdm under setting of DISPLAYMANAGER

Next expand the Window manager setting on the left side and click DEFAULT_WM make sure that says gnome. If those settings are correct just hit abort, if you changed them, then hit finish.

Ok, now go back to the main yast control panel and while still under system click on the System Services (Runlevel) option. From there click to select Expert mode at the top. Then under "set default runlevel after booting to:" change that to "5: Full multiuser with network and display manager" then click finish.

I'm having a problem Installing either the Eval or OSS versions of Suse 10 off the opensuse website. I downloaded all 10 CD iso's and all the checksums matched up to those on the website. Yet...
When I go to install the OSS installer tells me that all the CD's fail the checksum test.
With the Eval I either missed the media check or it wasn't there but I thought I'd pile on regardless and it failed to install the Perl or Kpowersave rpm's. I didn't think these would be too bad, but then just before the reboot it failed to install a boot manger so now on reboot all I get is a load of "9"s all over my screen.

I know it's not a problem with the CD drive on the machine I'm trying to install to as even the machine I wrote the CD's on fails. I would try writing the CD's on another machine but I've already wasted 10 CD's and I don't have another CD writer.

Any clues?

How are you writing the ISO images to CD?

Using Nero on Windows. When I double click on the iso in nero it just jumps straight into the burn screen asking what speed I want to write it at (I chose the slowest last time!).
I can view the CD's and see all the individual files on the disk so it's not just writing it as 1 big *.iso file.

Also to update on the last post I have tried on another writer (I forgot I had works laptop at home with a writer on it!) but again no luck. Almost identical problem. Perl failed, Boot manager failed, but kpowersave didn't (although another one failed instead). I'm confused....

Open Nero (not by double clicking the ISO image, but by the program icon in the start menu).

Say, Open Image File, change it to All Images, open the CD 1, and burn. Then try booting to it.

Sorry I didn't make myself clear. That is how I wrote the images.

The Disk boot's OK but the install fails each time.

Since you got good md5sums on the downloaded iso's then the problem is either the iso's did not burn properly or the installation program has a problem with your hardware.

mount each cd one-at-a-time and do this:
cd /mnt/cdrom/suse/i586
md5sum -c MD5SUMS|grep FAILED

If you don't get any failures then you need to try a different type of installation. When you boot CD#1 at the first screen hit F2 or whatever takes you to advanced help. Then try text install or try passing option noacip to kernel.

I even tried downloading the 9.3 Pro version of here but that had the same problem. I think I might have to try the Internet install of OSS as a last resort, it's eiher that or go out and buy the damn thing (+ a DVD drive)!

Downloaded the boot.iso over the weekend and tried that, and thankfully it did so I finally have a suse system up and running! should have done that first time around!

I'm having the same issue. I'm wonder if the little blurb on the install screen that says something like "set your burning software to add 'padding' to the disk", which I'm also using Nero, and it doesn't have. I wonder if a lack of padding is my problem (not something I say every day!).

- rob

PS - To summarize my "same problem": I downloaded the SuSE OSS 10.0 ISO images; md5sum says they are all good, yet when I burn them and do the "verify media" deal in install, they all fail! Burned on two machines, three drives... but all with Nero. Well, off to try yet another permutation!... :/

Ah, another data point: on machine #2, using EZ CD Creator (yeah, I know, don't blame me, it's my work machine) ... FAILURE AGAIN! ("md5sum wrong"; no, it's not!)
- rob