LinuxQuestions.org
Welcome to the most active Linux Forum on the web.
Go Back   LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Linux Forums > Linux - Distributions > SUSE / openSUSE
User Name
Password
SUSE / openSUSE This Forum is for the discussion of Suse Linux.

Notices


Reply
  Search this Thread
Old 11-27-2005, 12:42 PM   #16
pbpersson
Member
 
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Arizona, USA
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 44

Rep: Reputation: 19

Quote:
Originally posted by pbpersson
When I read your message I ejected the "bad" CD2 by using the Eject button on the screen in Yast - then re-inserted the CD2 and everything was just fine.

YAAAY!!!!
Phil
Now I am stuck on CD3.

The original CDs I downloaded using some new experiemental version of BitTorrent on my Windows machine that was recommended by the SUSE web site. Now I am re-downloading individual copies of the CD from a server in Salt Lake City.


Phil
 
Old 11-27-2005, 01:43 PM   #17
pbpersson
Member
 
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Arizona, USA
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 44

Rep: Reputation: 19
Quote:
Originally posted by pbpersson
Now I am stuck on CD3.

The original CDs I downloaded using some new experiemental version of BitTorrent on my Windows machine that was recommended by the SUSE web site. Now I am re-downloading individual copies of the CD from a server in Salt Lake City.


Phil
Hmm....well.....If I were to venture a guess I would say that hitting eject on the screen was part of it.

However, on my machine it also seemed to matter.....

I could not get CD4 to work unless I pushed the drawer in, let the CD spin up and then AT THE CRITICAL MOMENT hit OK on the screen.

If I were to hit OK too soon it would give me an error and would not recognize the CD. However, if I hit OK when the CD had been spinning for a while then it was okay.

So maybe it is just a critical timing issue with the install program? It should have a longer timeout parameter perhaps.....


Phil
 
Old 11-27-2005, 02:53 PM   #18
LoserDude27
LQ Newbie
 
Registered: Nov 2005
Posts: 11

Rep: Reputation: 0
HELP!!

I'm having a similar problem, except it's a bit different. I downloaded all 5 iso's for SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS from openSUSE.org via BitTorrent. I checked all the md5sums and they were great. I then used Nero to burn the image files to CD. I put CD 1 in and rebooted. The installation starts and I get to the actual installation point where it says "__ packages left" or whatever, then when it's finished with all the packages on CD1, it just says "Rebooting now.... 5 4 3 2 1...."! It doesn't even prompt for CD2!! I waited for it to reboot with CD1 still in my CD drive and it came up with the same screen, and pretended like I never even installed anything! I tried booting from CD2 and all I get is "Please insert CD1 or DVD and press a key to continue...."! What am I supposed to do? Since I want to install SUSE on an empty drive, should I just format it and try to install again? I know this isn't a problem with the CDs or my CD-ROM drive.

BTW, I chose KDE, if that helps any.

Last edited by LoserDude27; 11-27-2005 at 02:55 PM.
 
Old 11-27-2005, 04:10 PM   #19
pbpersson
Member
 
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Arizona, USA
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 44

Rep: Reputation: 19
Re: HELP!!

Quote:
Originally posted by LoserDude27
I'm having a similar problem, except it's a bit different. I downloaded all 5 iso's for SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS from openSUSE.org via BitTorrent. I checked all the md5sums and they were great. I then used Nero to burn the image files to CD. I put CD 1 in and rebooted. The installation starts and I get to the actual installation point where it says "__ packages left" or whatever, then when it's finished with all the packages on CD1, it just says "Rebooting now.... 5 4 3 2 1...."! It doesn't even prompt for CD2!! I waited for it to reboot with CD1 still in my CD drive and it came up with the same screen, and pretended like I never even installed anything! I tried booting from CD2 and all I get is "Please insert CD1 or DVD and press a key to continue...."! What am I supposed to do? Since I want to install SUSE on an empty drive, should I just format it and try to install again? I know this isn't a problem with the CDs or my CD-ROM drive.

BTW, I chose KDE, if that helps any.
When it reboots you are supposed to remove CD 1 from the drive - it will boot from the hard drive and then it will ask you to insert CD 2 so you can continue.

I read that somewhere so I knew to remove CD 1 at the correct time.
 
Old 11-27-2005, 04:25 PM   #20
LoserDude27
LQ Newbie
 
Registered: Nov 2005
Posts: 11

Rep: Reputation: 0
When you say "it will boot from the hard drive," do you mean it will use GRUB, then prompt me, or will it run Windows (my default OS)?
 
Old 11-27-2005, 04:28 PM   #21
pbpersson
Member
 
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Arizona, USA
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 44

Rep: Reputation: 19
Quote:
Originally posted by LoserDude27
When you say "it will boot from the hard drive," do you mean it will use GRUB, then prompt me, or will it run Windows (my default OS)?
I have a machine devoted to SUSE so I can't tell you. I would think it would use GRUB.

This is all so new to me.....back when I was fooling with Mandrake I dealt with LILO and now everyone is talking about GRUB.

I wonder if it's the same thing but with a different name??
 
Old 11-28-2005, 12:32 AM   #22
crazibri
Member
 
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Orange County, CA
Distribution: OS X, SuSE, RH, Debian, XP
Posts: 377

Rep: Reputation: 31
my suggestion, if it still applies.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=383654
 
Old 11-29-2005, 11:56 AM   #23
Master_Simon
Member
 
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: SE England
Distribution: Latest foray is the Fedora world
Posts: 46

Rep: Reputation: 15
Just to clarify

I have just done a complete install with my custom partitions all in place, I used a DVD from the front of Linux Format, brilliant, booted from the DVD, I'm chuffed with it, am now going to redo it all again with some more sensible partition sizes, I've got 2 gig partitions for both boot and root, and neither of them have used even half that amount.

Thanks for the heads up with the dismount bit. Would never have guessed that one.

cheers

Simon
 
Old 11-29-2005, 04:58 PM   #24
Dmjmusser
Member
 
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Detroit, Michigan -- USA
Distribution: Fedora Core
Posts: 90

Rep: Reputation: 15
Unfortunately for me, the trick of using the eject button on the screen does nothing for me. The system still hangs after the disc is reinserted. I'm still stuck. If I leave disc 1 in the drive upon reboot and tell the system to boot from hard disk, the systems hangs right when it begins to start the HAL daemon. If I take disc 1 out and boot normally from the hard disk, the system hangs after putting in disc 2, whether or not I use the "Eject" button on the screen. A huge pain in the butt.
 
Old 11-29-2005, 05:22 PM   #25
Dmjmusser
Member
 
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Detroit, Michigan -- USA
Distribution: Fedora Core
Posts: 90

Rep: Reputation: 15
Quote:
Originally posted by Dmjmusser
Unfortunately for me, the trick of using the eject button on the screen does nothing for me. The system still hangs after the disc is reinserted. I'm still stuck. If I leave disc 1 in the drive upon reboot and tell the system to boot from hard disk, the systems hangs right when it begins to start the HAL daemon. If I take disc 1 out and boot normally from the hard disk, the system hangs after putting in disc 2, whether or not I use the "Eject" button on the screen. A huge pain in the butt.
Ah, so I've discovered another bit of info pertaining to this problem, though it doesn't get me much closer to finding out the answer because I'm not sure why this is happening...

I tried to continue the installation in FAILSAFE mode. Of course, using the "show details" tab told me about the media mount failure before I ever inserted disc 2, but after I inserted disc 2, I got a "ERROR: INVALID FILESYSTEM" message. Interesting...is SuSe 10.0 not compatible with the way WinXP (or perhaps Nero, my burning software) formats CD-R's during the burn? NOTE: I did burn the image from the ISO files, so that's not the problem.
 
Old 11-29-2005, 05:24 PM   #26
Dmjmusser
Member
 
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Detroit, Michigan -- USA
Distribution: Fedora Core
Posts: 90

Rep: Reputation: 15
Quote:
Originally posted by Dmjmusser
Ah, so I've discovered another bit of info pertaining to this problem, though it doesn't get me much closer to finding out the answer because I'm not sure why this is happening...

I tried to continue the installation in FAILSAFE mode. Of course, using the "show details" tab told me about the media mount failure before I ever inserted disc 2, but after I inserted disc 2, I got a "ERROR: INVALID FILESYSTEM" message. Interesting...is SuSe 10.0 not compatible with the way WinXP (or perhaps Nero, my burning software) formats CD-R's during the burn? NOTE: I did burn the image from the ISO files, so that's not the problem.
FIXED!! I decided to go ahead and click OK even though I'd gotten that strange error, and now, as I'm typing, the selected packages are being installed!! So try FAILSAFE mode, people, if you have this kind of problem!!
 
Old 11-30-2005, 03:34 AM   #27
juli
LQ Newbie
 
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: Denmark
Distribution: suse 9.1, debian
Posts: 5

Rep: Reputation: 0
Having a similar problem.
I installed Suse 10.0 (update from 9.3) a couple of days ago. Upgrade went fine at the first glance but in KDE the DVD/CD burner is gone, even though the yust hardware info reports the drive correctly:

http://kraftfelt.dk/index.php?id=547

Seems to be a bug in HAL as there are updates on Novells page:

Quote:
This update fixes problems with detecting filesystem and mounting of CD/DVD
volumes (bugs #130210, #130993, #104355 and #105956).
You can download a patch here:

http://www.novell.com/linux/download...00_x86_64.html

or use the Yust Online Update.

Unfortuanatly, in my case the patch fixed the problem only until the next reboot!? So I am stuck, can't update/install any software from any sites at all for the DVD/CD-drive must be present as installation source.

Is it possible to "live" without this HAL-thing? Has anybody experiences with removing the HALL-package, setting up the fstab by hand etc. ?

Regards
Juergen
 
Old 11-30-2005, 09:44 AM   #28
Dmjmusser
Member
 
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Detroit, Michigan -- USA
Distribution: Fedora Core
Posts: 90

Rep: Reputation: 15
Hmmm...I've found the patches, but me being the inexperienced Linux user that I am...how can I install the packages if I haven't finished installing the operating system? I have no other OS on the box right now, as my drives have been formatted during the SuSe setup. Perhaps by getting the emergency disc from Novell I can install this patch? Any thoughts?

-Myles
 
Old 11-30-2005, 03:40 PM   #29
juli
LQ Newbie
 
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: Denmark
Distribution: suse 9.1, debian
Posts: 5

Rep: Reputation: 0
Wink

You can first use the patches when the system is installed an up running - so far I know. I have to admit that my posting was put in the wrong thread.
But anyway, @Myles, if SuSE 10.0 is giving you to much installation trouble, try SuSE 9.3.
I was actually quite satisfied. Only the boot up time was after a year or so more and more expanding (about 3 minutes at last) and I was getting tied to find out what the cause was. Therefore I gave SuSE 10 a try. Really good boot up time but no DVD :-)
You win something you loose something.
Regards
Juergen
 
Old 12-07-2005, 09:01 PM   #30
coyopil
Member
 
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Bergen, Norway
Distribution: 2005: Libranet 2.8.1 expanded with Debian Sarge 2012: Kanotix 64 bit, antiX 8.5, Crunchbang
Posts: 139

Rep: Reputation: 14
thanks guys!!!!!!! i had this problem today, was going to burn new disks. now i'll try this


--but from this it does seem that suse does not have the solidity of a debian system. i had to back down from mepis, back to debian

Last edited by coyopil; 12-07-2005 at 09:07 PM.
 
  


Reply


Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off



Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Can I install SUSE 10.0 CD1 and add CD2-CD5 later? augu2000 SUSE / openSUSE 3 10-24-2005 12:36 PM
SUSE 10.0 DVD install asks for CD2 microsvc SUSE / openSUSE 6 10-19-2005 06:07 PM
suse 10.0 not booting from CD1 or CD2 danrweki Linux - Newbie 6 10-04-2005 09:23 AM
I cannot boot CD1 or CD2, Suse 9.0 inspect Linux - Software 1 08-26-2004 11:35 AM
Mandrake 9.2 Inst: Problems with CD2 Qhayaal Mandriva 2 11-26-2003 04:21 AM

LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Linux Forums > Linux - Distributions > SUSE / openSUSE

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:07 AM.

Main Menu
Advertisement
My LQ
Write for LQ
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute content, let us know.
Main Menu
Syndicate
RSS1  Latest Threads
RSS1  LQ News
Twitter: @linuxquestions
Open Source Consulting | Domain Registration