Alexander Osthof wrote:

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Hi all,

I have burnt OpenSuse 10.2 on a DVD to install it on my laptop but it seems that the DVD is not bootable! I have checked everything and all should be OK but it is not booted from DVD to be able to install it on my laptop. Can anybody help? BTW I used ISO image burned using DVDDecrytor.

Did you check the boot order in BIOS? Maybe your DVD drive is located after your HD. In this case, your laptop will never boot from it.

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Thanks,

D.

Greetings,

Yes I have. I am sure it first checks the CD ROM. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Sunny wrote:

On 2/14/07, Danesh Daroui wrote:

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Yes I have. I am sure it first checks the CD ROM.

Did you compare the md5sum for the downloaded image? Maybe the image itself was corrupted.

Also. I have seen such a problem with some (older) laptops - for some reason they will not boot from a DVD but will happily boot from a CD. Also, check the media itself, it may be bad as well.

Well I checked it on my PC too but it doesn't work. For your information the files on the DVD are: media.1 (folder) suse (folder) ARCHIVES (zip file) ChangeLog content content.asc directory.yast INDEX (zip file) installation (xml file) Is-Ir (zip file) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Jose wrote:

Sunny wrote:

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On 2/14/07, Danesh Daroui wrote:

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Yes I have. I am sure it first checks the CD ROM.

Did you compare the md5sum for the downloaded image? Maybe the image itself was corrupted.

Also. I have seen such a problem with some (older) laptops - for some reason they will not boot from a DVD but will happily boot from a CD. Also, check the media itself, it may be bad as well.

Adding up to this, I had the same problem a few days ago, problem was the reader on the unit couldn't read at the speed I burned the DVD, maximum was speed 8 as it's an older dvd reader and the dvd was burned at speed 16.

I don't know. I burned it using my DVD writer and opened it with the same drive. I think there is no such problem while I have not had any problem with write/read speed. I can open this DVD with my DVD and CD drives and they show files on it, but it is not bootable! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Jose wrote:

Danesh Daroui wrote:

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Jose wrote:

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Sunny wrote:

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On 2/14/07, Danesh Daroui wrote:

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Yes I have. I am sure it first checks the CD ROM.

Did you compare the md5sum for the downloaded image? Maybe the image itself was corrupted.

Also. I have seen such a problem with some (older) laptops - for some reason they will not boot from a DVD but will happily boot from a CD. Also, check the media itself, it may be bad as well.

Adding up to this, I had the same problem a few days ago, problem was the reader on the unit couldn't read at the speed I burned the DVD, maximum was speed 8 as it's an older dvd reader and the dvd was burned at speed 16.

I don't know. I burned it using my DVD writer and opened it with the same drive. I think there is no such problem while I have not had any problem with write/read speed. I can open this DVD with my DVD and CD drives and they show files on it, but it is not bootable!

That's so, I had another problem like yours, right speed, showed me files every time I opened the dvd from any station, but it wouldn't boot up, problem was that the ISO I used was bad, I would download the ISO again, from another server (that's what I did) source, and when I burned the iso again from the different source it worked

Nice tip. I am now downloading from another mirror and hope to work. Thanks, D. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Jose wrote:

Danesh Daroui wrote:

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Jose wrote:

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Danesh Daroui wrote:

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Jose wrote:

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Sunny wrote:

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On 2/14/07, Danesh Daroui wrote:

> > > Yes I have. I am sure it first checks the CD ROM. >

Did you compare the md5sum for the downloaded image? Maybe the image itself was corrupted.

Also. I have seen such a problem with some (older) laptops - for some reason they will not boot from a DVD but will happily boot from a CD. Also, check the media itself, it may be bad as well.

Adding up to this, I had the same problem a few days ago, problem was the reader on the unit couldn't read at the speed I burned the DVD, maximum was speed 8 as it's an older dvd reader and the dvd was burned at speed 16.

I don't know. I burned it using my DVD writer and opened it with the same drive. I think there is no such problem while I have not had any problem with write/read speed. I can open this DVD with my DVD and CD drives and they show files on it, but it is not bootable!

That's so, I had another problem like yours, right speed, showed me files every time I opened the dvd from any station, but it wouldn't boot up, problem was that the ISO I used was bad, I would download the ISO again, from another server (that's what I did) source, and when I burned the iso again from the different source it worked

Nice tip. I am now downloading from another mirror and hope to work.

Thanks,

D.

You welcome, let the list know if that solved your problem, and don't forget to check the md5sum file

Jose

It wasn't successful. I downloaded a new image from another mirror server but I still have same problem. I can see the contents of my DVD on both machines (Windows and Ubuntu) but it is not bootable! I used Language Add-on CD and burned it on DVD, I am not sure if it can cause the problem. I am downloading the DVD of installation media for last chance. If it won't work I have to keep Ubuntu which does not meet my needs. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Sunny wrote:

On 2/14/07, Danesh Daroui wrote:

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It wasn't successful. I downloaded a new image from another mirror server but I still have same problem. I can see the contents of my DVD on both machines (Windows and Ubuntu) but it is not bootable! I used Language Add-on CD and burned it on DVD, I am not sure if it can cause the problem. I am downloading the DVD of installation media for last chance. If it won't work I have to keep Ubuntu which does not meet my needs.

What file exatcly you are downloading. Please, post a link.

The image in this link: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/iso/cd/openSUSE-10.2-GM-Addon... had problems. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Danesh Daroui [02-14-07 16:01]:

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The image in this link:

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/iso/cd/openSUSE-10.2-GM-Addon...

had problems.

Could it be that this is *not* a bootable image. IIANM, you need one of the *CD1* images to boot. The "language" cds are additional cds providing languages not present on the regular installation cd set.

In that case can anyone provide the link to the minimum bootable CD which is needed to install? I am downloading the DVD version but it takes long time. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 14 February 2007 02:58:47 pm Danesh Daroui wrote:

The image in this link:

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/iso/cd/openSUSE-10.2-GM-Ad don-Lang-i386.iso

had problems.

That shouldn't be bootable. That is like a driver disk/cd/iso in that it should be readable/loadable but isn't the main boot disk to run the install. You need http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/iso/cd/openSUSE-10.2-GM-i386-... as well as the other 4 for the distribution. I believe CD1 and CD2 are bootable. You will use the Addon-Lang CD for that particular language. Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Sunny wrote:

On 2/14/07, Danesh Daroui wrote:

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http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/iso/cd/openSUSE-10.2-GM-Addon...

had problems.

The Addon CD is not bootable, it just contains more language packs.

For install, you need the CD1.

Also, it is a bad idea to burn cd image onto DVD media. I'm not sure this will work OK. Either download the install DVD, or get all install CDs (incl. the addon), or, you can do a network install, if you download the mini-iso. Read for internet install here: http://en.opensuse.org/INSTALL_Internet

Cheers

You are right. Sorry, I am not that silly, but I think the information on download page is a little bit confusing at least for a newbie. It now works, thanks everybody. Now, I have some questions: 1. I saw a very cool 3D modeling which was offered in OpenSuse where the user could see other windows by rotating a cube. It was very cool but I think it is available only in KDE. I am more comfortable with GNOME. Is it available in GNOME too? 2. How OpenSuse works with Wireless cards? I had very big problems with Ubuntu to detect my card and at last I installed ndiswrapper, but after a while everything began to be messy and my Wireless card didn'r work at all! My Wireless card is Broadcom. 3. As I see, OpenSuse supports RPM packages, but I think it has its own package manager too. Am I right? Thanks, D. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Sunny wrote:

On 2/14/07, Danesh Daroui wrote:

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You are right. Sorry, I am not that silly, but I think the information

The "silly", or actually the "incompetent" in my signature is just for fun with my friends. Sorry if I offended you or somebody else.

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1. I saw a very cool 3D modeling which was offered in OpenSuse where the user could see other windows by rotating a cube. It was very cool but I think it is available only in KDE. I am more comfortable with GNOME. Is it available in GNOME too?

AFAIK, this should work with gnome. The name is compwiz, read on opensuse site for it.

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2. How OpenSuse works with Wireless cards? I had very big problems with Ubuntu to detect my card and at last I installed ndiswrapper, but after a while everything began to be messy and my Wireless card didn'r work at all! My Wireless card is Broadcom.

So far Suse was best in working with wireless cards out of the box. It detected my laptop's Broadcom and configured it. Exceptions apply of course.

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3. As I see, OpenSuse supports RPM packages, but I think it has its own package manager too. Am I right?

RPM is only the framework. There are a lot of package manager, which work with that framework - rpm itself, YaST (suse's one), smart, yum, there is also apt-get for RPMs. I use smart, but before that I used apt-get. All are available from opensuse install cd.

Cheers

P.S. it would be nice if you start new thread on the list when you have new questions/problems, unrelated to the previous one.

Thanks Sunny. Sure, I will start a new thread. Also, I had not seen your signature at all. I just wrote it. ;) You were very helpful. Thanks for your help. D. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Bryan S. Tyson wrote:

On Wednesday 14 February 2007 3:26 pm, Danesh Daroui wrote:

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It wasn't successful. I downloaded a new image from another mirror server but I still have same problem. I can see the contents of my DVD on both machines (Windows and Ubuntu) but it is not bootable! I used Language Add-on CD and burned it on DVD, I am not sure if it can cause the problem. I am downloading the DVD of installation media for last chance. If it won't work I have to keep Ubuntu which does not meet my needs.

Danesh,

I too had trouble getting a good download of the iso. After two failures, I bought a DVD from http://www.linuxcentral.com and it worked perfectly.

Bryan

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Yes I think it is a little bit confusing. I downloaded CD images one by one and it worked but he DVD version didn't. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

jdd wrote:

Danesh Daroui wrote:

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Yes I think it is a little bit confusing. I downloaded CD images one by one and it worked but he DVD version didn't.

in the doubt of the true reason, you could mention this on the HW compatibility list on the wiki. may be also open a bugzilla entry with the exact model of the laptop and the dvd reader

jdd

Sure, I will do that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

jdd wrote:

Danesh Daroui wrote:

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Yes I have. I am sure it first checks the CD ROM.

did you burn the dvd as an image or as a data dvd?

open it in any OS, if you see a file XXX.iso, it's an image, so backup but not usable

you should see files and directories (root of the dvd)

jdd

Well, it is data, I am sure. I can see files. I have listed the files on DVD in my last post. There is no image file. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Rikard Johnels wrote:

On Wednesday 14 February 2007 18:44, Danesh Daroui wrote:

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Alexander Osthof wrote:

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Hi all,

I have burnt OpenSuse 10.2 on a DVD to install it on my laptop but it seems that the DVD is not bootable! I have checked everything and all should be OK but it is not booted from DVD to be able to install it on my laptop. Can anybody help? BTW I used ISO image burned using DVDDecrytor.

Did you check the boot order in BIOS? Maybe your DVD drive is located after your HD. In this case, your laptop will never boot from it.

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Thanks,

D.

Greetings,

Yes I have. I am sure it first checks the CD ROM.

Does the laptop have DVD at all? You say it checks the CD first..!? A DVD disk will not boot or even be readable in a CD reader. Does the laptop boot from a bootable CD-disk (eg. windows XP install)?

Yes it does. As I said, I can see the contents of DVD in my laptop which runs Ubuntu at this time, but it is not bootable. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Joshua Raphael P. Fuentes wrote:

how did you burn the dvd? did you burn as the image to disk? or you made a data disk that contained the iso? I hope you burned the image to disk.

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I have burnt OpenSuse 10.2 on a DVD to install it on my laptop but it seems that the DVD is not bootable! I have checked everything and all should be OK but it is not booted from DVD to be able to install it on my laptop. Can anybody help? BTW I used ISO image burned using DVDDecrytor.

No. I burned the image correctly because there files on the DVD which could be seen, The only problem was that the DVD was not bootable. Anyway, the DVD version didn't work for me but CDs when I downloaded one by one did work fine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org