SUSE 10.1 'No valid installation media'

cauly · 05-14-2006, 03:18 AM

Downloaded 'two different' sets of ISO images of SUSE 10.1 GM from different mirrors and they both throw up 'No Valid Installation Media' when I get to the package selection stage (or not as the case is). So that kinda rules out a dodgy build, MD5's look good?
Tried burning the iso's to CD (all 5) and making a DVD via makeSUSEdvd and exactly the same problem, have tried on various machines and still the same problem....what is going on?
When using the CD's it takes about 25 minutes 'initialising catalogues' and building pacakges' then bombs
I have not been able to install SUSE since they started on 10.1 RC1?
I have tried a failsafe install with the same result.
Also tried doing an upgrade via YAST and the install failed big style, could not install kernel properly.

Maybe it is a weird ACPI setup or something on my computer as I have seen problems with this before but I have tried changing BIOS setups to no avail. It maybe to do with the 64 arch on my 3Ghz chip?.....oh by the way I am using the i386 install as I don't see the point in installing the 64Bit version as I end up using i386 packages anyway....i386 install works with 10.0!

Any ideas would be most welcome as I currently have 10.0 GM installed since it was released and that went without a hitch as did 9.1, 9.2, 9.3.

PC config is:

Intel P4 3.0GHz emt64
ASUS P5P800 M/B
1GB RAM
ATI Radeon 256MB Graphics
Sony 16X Dual layer DVD+-

Gonna give it a few more shots then SUSE 10.1 is going to the naughty step

Cheers!

litlmary · 05-14-2006, 03:33 AM

This is a known bug, so a patch should not be too far away...

http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/6879

J

cauly · 05-14-2006, 04:12 AM

Thanks for the prompt reply!
Could not see any reference to that bug on the link you posted.
Also had a quick look on bugzilla and could not a specific bug relating to this....hmmmm....weird.

litlmary · 05-14-2006, 04:27 AM

Quote:

A new glitch to rear its head in all the software modules was this incessant nag screen that the signature file failed the security check. Although there is a checkbox to "Do not show this message again," it appeared again and again. Even if it was necessary to check it in all the individual modules, it still appeared each time the same module was opened. grrr. Do I predict a patch for this in the near future?

http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/6879?from=0,1

sorry I wasn't more clear...

J

dkpatrick · 05-15-2006, 03:08 PM

I have tried 8 ways from Sunday to get the Install Server to install 10.1. I was able to install from the CDs OK.

1. I downloaded the whole SuSE (10GB for x86) and after identifying this download to the install server, I get "No Valid Installation Media" installing using the either the mini.iso or boot.iso on a client machine.

2. I tried creating an installation source by using the same CDs and having the Install Server install them. That resulted in the same message when I tried using that installation source.

3. I downloaded fresh iso's and tried creating an installation source from the Install server. Same message

I tried the 10.0 install server (which works just fine in all the above scenarios for the 10.0 media) and a 10.1 install server from a machine I had setup.

I can't get past this message and it doesn't seem to bear any relationship to the issue "Litlmary" identified above. Has anyone gotten 10.1 to install using their own install server???