Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[JB <yonaton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Hi gang,

  I'm trying to install 9.3 on my girlfriend's system but having some 
troubles.

  All the hardware seems to be picked up fine, and everything works great up 
until it's time to install all the software I picked. It starts to install, 
but at random intervals and (I guess) random packages, it pops up windows 
saying such-and-such rpm cannot be installed (something about bad checksum). 
We tried this 6 times (a LOT of time went by doing this).

  I later thought 'maybe it's the RAM'. I wrote her an e-mail telling her to 
do the memtest86 thing, but she says it opens a console and wants a root 
login name and root password. Since we haven't been able to install anything 
there is no root anything.

  How do I get the thing to do the memtest if there's no root name or 
password? I really want her to try Linux and she's wanting to also, even her 
daughter is pretty enthusiastic about trying it out.

  Thanks,

  John
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