I am new to LINUX, but I never go back to Windows. I am using SUSE 9.1. Now I want to install new wersion SUSE 9.2

I have downloaded SUSE 9.2 DVD ISO and have burned it on DVD. I cant install from that DVD. What is wrong?

Thanks

Hi riba43,

Little more info please. Can you boot from the CD. when you place the CD in the drive and restart the computer, what happens? Does it just ignore the CD and boot from the harddrive instead. IF so have you boot from a CD before.

GlenX

Hi GlenX,

Yes I can boot from SUSE 9.1 CD but I cant from SUSE 9.2 ISO DVD.

riba43

There must be something wrong with the copy, hat did u use to copy it,m did you copy the EXZCT ISO or just the files from it. My frine once just copied the files and the CD was unbootable, but had all the files.

GlenX

mine did the same and i used ultra iso (newest version) to put it to a dvd and it got most of the way through the install and then it said it couldn't find the stuff on the disk. i got 9.2 pro on the way, we will see when it gets here..

Did you check the MD5 checksum prior to burning the ISO to disc? It's possible the ISO itself is corrupt.

Hi everybody,

Yes, I have checked MD5 checksum prior to copy and was O.K. and Glenx, yes I copied complete ISO, not files. When I open my DVD on another comp, I can see the ISO File exactly as the one on I dL on my comp, but was unable to open it.

riba43

You don't copy an ISO, you burn it as an image file. If your burning app has the option to 'burn ISO / image file' then you need to use that. If done correctly, you should see a bunch of files and directories on the new DVD and *not* a single *.iso file.

Hi mugstar,

I have downloaded from SUSE home page the following file"SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso which has 3.1 GB". I have burned it as image file on DVD. (two times) and now I have two DVD s with iso image file - what to do with them ? I cant boot with neither of them. I use k3b software for burning. Is there something I should know?


riba43

When you look at the contents of the DVD in Konqueror, do you see one file called "SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso" or a bunch or normal directories and files?

If you see the .iso file on the disc, you didn't burn it as an .iso image - you put it into a data disc as a file.

To write a CD from an .iso image in K3b do this:

1. Click Tools
2. go to DVD -> Burn ISO DVD Image
3. Select the ISO
(insert blank DVD at some point btw )
4. Click Start
5. Wait (if you're burning to 1x media, add , and wait. . . and wait. . . WAKE UP!!! )

Now you should not see the .iso image on the disc when you mount it, but the Suse installation files. If you see the install files, then you burned it correctly and should now be able to boot from the disc.

Hi,

This is the file Ican see in Konqueror -"SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso" (the name of the file)- and there is nothing else, no directories, nothing. I have DL the "boot-20041129.iso". This is a mini installation CD of only 64MB. That one I burned as boot CD exactly the same way as I tried to do with DVDs and it is working. I can boot from it.

Then you burned it as a data disc and not as instructed above. You need to burn it as an ISO image, not as a data disc.

Hi everybody,

Sorry, I was not here for the last two days. I managed to burn again SuSE 9.2 image file and now everything is O.K

Thanks again to everyone who was trying to help