On 5/13/05, Kai Zhang wrote:

This is getting desperate. i put my new pc in DMZ now. same error msg:

Cannot read package data from installation media. Media Error?

Does anyone has a solution. Does SUSE begin to stop user ftp installing it?

help!

On 5/12/05, Kai Zhang wrote:

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Cannot read package data from installation media. Media Error?

Im installing Linux suse 9.2 via FTP. I downloaded boot.ioi from and burned it into a CD. I've got ADSL and disable't d firewall. The installation gets as far as the install settings page then i recieve the above Error.

Any help would be greatley appreciated.

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I've personally had this problem a number of times. It's always been due to a badly burned Cd or DVD. I now habitually burn at a lower speed than is rated for the disk. You could also try cleaning the disk burner lens. If that all fails try a different brand of disk. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

The only time I've gotten media errors from good CD's is when I have my SuSE CD is my slave CD ROM Drive. In my personal computers I like to have more then one CD ROM for several reasons... but for some reason SuSE doesn't like to be installed from a slaved drive. As soon as I put the CD in the master CDROM, everything went great. No more media errors. Perhaps this is the problem you're experiencing? I don't know too much about FTP installs, as I try to always buy my copies of SuSE... but I thought I might mention it just in case. Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies Kai Zhang wrote:

I have downloaded and burned CDs 3 times. As it is a FTP installation, CD only loads up the some kernel modules and load up RAM drive directly from FTP server ( I use mirror.ac.uk and tried other mirrors as well). I tried both in my office and at home. I am pretty sure it's not network issue. The error says Media Error, but the actual media source of the installation is FTP server. Anyone has an experience with direct FTP installation? Please give me a tip!

On 5/13/05, Kevanf1 wrote:

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On 5/13/05, Kai Zhang wrote:

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This is getting desperate. i put my new pc in DMZ now. same error msg:

Cannot read package data from installation media. Media Error?

Does anyone has a solution. Does SUSE begin to stop user ftp installing it?

help!

On 5/12/05, Kai Zhang wrote:

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Cannot read package data from installation media. Media Error?

Im installing Linux suse 9.2 via FTP. I downloaded boot.ioi from and burned it into a CD. I've got ADSL and disable't d firewall. The installation gets as far as the install settings page then i recieve the above Error.

Any help would be greatley appreciated.

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I've personally had this problem a number of times. It's always been due to a badly burned Cd or DVD. I now habitually burn at a lower speed than is rated for the disk. You could also try cleaning the disk burner lens. If that all fails try a different brand of disk.

-- Take care. Kevan Farmer

34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

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-- Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies http://www.viviotech.net/ jordan@viviotech.net

Yep, that sounds familiar. Just out of curiosity, are you trying to install the 64 bit version? Or the 32 bit version? What kind of PC are you trying to install it on? -JM Kai Zhang wrote:

The CDROM is on master. I can boot up via CDROM and it leads to installation procedures. Everything works fine until Yast2 gets to the software package selection. It took awful long time for my PC to evaluate the package. Then "Cannot read package data from installation media. Media Error?

I logged into the mirror.ac.uk server on all occasions and downloaded 60 MB of information to load into memory, setup the keyboard and mouse, usb-storage, etc. It only locked up on the software packaging.

Please give me a hand!

On 5/13/05, Jordan Michaels wrote:

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The only time I've gotten media errors from good CD's is when I have my SuSE CD is my slave CD ROM Drive. In my personal computers I like to have more then one CD ROM for several reasons... but for some reason SuSE doesn't like to be installed from a slaved drive.

As soon as I put the CD in the master CDROM, everything went great. No more media errors.

Perhaps this is the problem you're experiencing? I don't know too much about FTP installs, as I try to always buy my copies of SuSE... but I thought I might mention it just in case.

Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies

Kai Zhang wrote: I have downloaded and burned CDs 3 times. As it is a FTP

installation, CD

...

only loads up the some kernel modules and load up RAM

drive directly from

...

FTP server ( I use mirror.ac.uk and tried other

mirrors as well). I tried

...

both in my office and at home. I am pretty

sure it's not network issue. The

...

error says Media Error, but the

actual media source of the installation is

...

FTP server.

Anyone has an experience with direct FTP installation? Please

...

give me a tip!

On 5/13/05, Kevanf1 wrote:

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On 5/13/05, Kai Zhang wrote:

...

This is getting desperate. i put my new pc in DMZ now. same error msg:

Cannot read package data from installation media. Media Error?

Does

...

anyone has a solution. Does SUSE begin to stop user ftp installing it?

help!

On 5/12/05, Kai Zhang wrote:

...

Cannot read package data from installation media. Media Error?

Im

...

installing Linux suse 9.2 via FTP. I downloaded boot.ioi from and

burned it

...

into a CD. I've got ADSL and disable't d firewall. The

installation gets as

...

far as the install settings page then i recieve

the above Error.

Any help

...

would be greatley appreciated.

...

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Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands

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send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com

Also check the archives at

...

http://lists.suse.com

Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

...

I've personally had this problem a number of times. It's always been

due to

...

a badly burned Cd or DVD. I now habitually burn at a lower

speed than is

...

rated for the disk. You could also try cleaning the

disk burner lens. If

...

that all fails try a different brand of disk.

-- Take care. Kevan

...

Farmer

34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

-- Check the

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headers for your unsubscription address

For additional commands send e-mail

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to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com

Also check the archives at

...

http://lists.suse.com

Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

...

--

Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio

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Technologies

http://www.viviotech.net/ jordan@viviotech.net

-- Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies http://www.viviotech.net/ jordan@viviotech.net

Thanks, I have my suse 9.2 successfully installed! Many thanks! It seems files on UK ftp mirrors are not legible for direct ftp installation. Any idea when suse 9.3 will be availabe for download? Rumors are that from 9.2, there will be no more free download. can anyone verify this? On 5/14/05, Rikard Johnels wrote:

On Friday 13 May 2005 23.55, Kai Zhang wrote:

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The CDROM is on master. I can boot up via CDROM and it leads to installation procedures. Everything works fine until Yast2 gets to the software package selection. It took awful long time for my PC to evaluate the package. Then "Cannot read package data from installation media. Media Error?

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Have you tried another FTP mirror? I use the ftp.gwdg.de (134.76.11.100) and have no problems whatsoever.

One catch; You need to enter the IP NUMBER, not the FQDN in the server box. By some obscure reason Yast doesn't use the DNS you enter in the install.

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/Rikard

" Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something." -R. Stallman

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On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 02:46 +0200, Rikard Johnels wrote: Why can't you cut this trailer out when you reply?

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Well.. At least the mirror i gave you seems to have it up. ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/9.3/ But i haven't verified the listing against a DVD or CD set.. But from what i can see, most is in there.. (Over 3600 files)

The ftp version is not available yet. check http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.3 , read the message at the bottom of the screen. When it is available you will many messages on this list about it. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge