cwsiv wrote:
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 16:09, Sid Boyce wrote:
I faffed around with I don't know what and got 9.1-Pro to 9.2-Pro upgrade on my x86_64 laptop using the DVD and it's fine. On this x86 box nForce2 chipset and Athlon XP3000+, I ran into the same problems that I saw on the x86_64, did the same sort of faffing around with no luck. It goes off analysing the system and gets to choosing the root partition, if I give it /dev/hda1 (9.1 120G), it says it can't mount the dvd (either on /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd) and fails, same for the floppy if a floppy is not in place. I try to choose the /dev/hdc1 (old 9.0) as root, it's happy. hda1 is a 120G IDE (UDMA100) and hdc1 is 160G IDE (UDMA 133). I've swapped cables over on mobo, so hda1 is now the 160G it's happy as usual, hdc1 (120G), it fails to mount it. I can go to CTRL-ALT-F2 and mount the drive as /mnt, just what 9.2 is attempting. Filesystem check/debugreiserfs using the 9.2 DVD or CD, says it's fine. I've got another 160G that I shall rsync the 9.1 disk to and see if it's happy with that for the upgrade. Summat's very wrong with 9.2 as seen with the shinannegins of Pete Nickolic and others. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
Forget upgrade try clean Install. Did you check suse for the md5sum for the dvd?
I did verify the DVD. I recently did a clean install on a P-II 333 laptop 64M using the CD's, regulation install, not a single problem. It was a non-graphical install and it worked out the video details correctly for the Trident Cyber 9388. Still puzzled by the failure to install on a new HD (both CD and DVD) until a XP install was started and aborted first. HD wiped and he got the same trouble, XP install started and aborted, 9.2 installed perfectly, same DVD and CD's. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====