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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.
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.....
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.
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.
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??
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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:
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. ?
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?
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
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