[opensuse] suse install problem
hi folks, I am trying to install opensuse 10.0 on a friends old Dell Inspiron 3200 : Hardware checks out, machine was running W98 .... I have disabled most of the "features" like serial, infrared, floppy, etc. The machine boots from the CD-1 fine and I select bootup options 1024x768, acpi off, and press go... the system starts and find all the hardware (including the cdrom) ... usb... pci... and then goes searching for the info file...................................... and does not find it... asks for CD-1..... So, the machine can boot from CD, but can not find the info file on the same CD? Can someone tell me what bootup option I need to get past this one? Thanks much! -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 07 April 2007 13:14, M Harris wrote:
So, the machine can boot from CD, but can not find the info file on the same CD? Can someone tell me what bootup option I need to get past this one? Update:
Ubuntu loads no problem... But, I want Suse 10 on this machine, not Ubuntu... Why is it that the machine can boot from CDROM, but the system does not recognize the CD-1 as CD-1 to find the info file... is this a cdrom speed thing... or a disk image problem... by the way, this disk works fine in my other machines... does not look damaged. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 07 April 2007 14:58, M Harris wrote:
So, the machine can boot from CD, but can not find the info file on the same CD? Can someone tell me what bootup option I need to get past this one? Update: Ubuntu loads no problem... But, I want Suse 10 on this machine, not Ubuntu... Why is it that the machine can boot from CDROM, but the system does not recognize the CD-1 as CD-1 to find the info file... is this a cdrom speed
On Saturday 07 April 2007 13:14, M Harris wrote: thing... or a disk image problem... by the way, this disk works fine in my other machines... does not look damaged. -- Kind regards, M Harris <><
Are the disks from the boxed set or from a download? Have the disks been used on any other computer with success? If it was a download, what speed did you burn the disk at? Problems have been reported when the disks are burned at a high speed, I burn mine at 4x, same with the DVD version. Hope this helps some Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 07 April 2007 15:13, ka1ifq wrote:
Are the disks from the boxed set or from a download? Have the disks been used on any other computer with success? If it was a download, what speed did you burn the disk at? Problems have been reported when the disks are burned at a high speed, I burn mine at 4x, same with the DVD version. Thanks.
The disks are from a boxed set... and they have been used to load (reload) several times on other machines... tried them on another machine works fine... but they are not working in the dell inspiron 3200... boots fine... loads the kernel etc... cannot find the info file. rats. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 07 April 2007 14:23, M Harris wrote:
Problems have been reported when the disks are burned at a high speed, I burn mine at 4x, same with the DVD version. Its a CD not DVD...
If I copy the CD on another machine and burn a copy (slow speed)... will work? seems silly.. but I'm willing to try it. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat 07 Apr 2007 19:32, M Harris wrote:
If I copy the CD on another machine and burn a copy (slow speed)... will work?
- Is there some method whereby one can copy a CD-iso to Hard Disk, and access, without using the CD drive . . . but by mounting the iso as /loop device? thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 21:35 +0000, riccardo35@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat 07 Apr 2007 19:32, M Harris wrote:
If I copy the CD on another machine and burn a copy (slow speed)... will work?
- Is there some method whereby one can copy a CD-iso to Hard Disk, and access, without using the CD drive . . . but by mounting the iso as /loop device?
That's exactly the method I use, but with the DVD. I then use FTP as an install source from the loop mounted DVD. Works quite well with the beta versions as well. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 07 April 2007 15:35, riccardo35@gmail.com wrote:
- Is there some method whereby one can copy a CD-iso to Hard Disk, and access, without using the CD drive . . . but by mounting the iso as /loop device?
Use the mount command: mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro,exec,unhide whatever.iso /path/mountpoint Or add to your /etc/fstab (mounts everytime you reboot): /path/whatever.iso /path/mountpoint iso9660 loop,ro,exec,unhide Copy the ISO with K3B or with: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/path/whatever.iso Replace /dev/cdrom with the proper device in the command above, if needed. Carlos FL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon 09 Apr 2007 01:37, Carlos F Lange wrote:
 - Is there some method whereby one can copy a CD-iso to Hard Disk, and access, without using the CD drive . . . but by mounting the iso as /loop device?
Use the mount command:
mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro,exec,unhide whatever.iso /path/mountpoint
Or add to your /etc/fstab (mounts everytime you reboot):
/path/whatever.iso /path/mountpoint iso9660 loop,ro,exec,unhide
Copy the ISO with K3B or with:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/path/whatever.iso
Replace /dev/cdrom with the proper device in the command above, if needed.
- thank you so much, Carlos FL - this is really good to learn :) best wishes -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-04-07 at 13:14 -0500, M Harris wrote:
The machine boots from the CD-1 fine and I select bootup options 1024x768, acpi off, and press go... the system starts and find all the hardware (including the cdrom) ... usb... pci... and then goes searching for the info file...................................... and does not find it... asks for CD-1.....
I would look at opensuse|novell|suse site for known problems, this could be one of them. Otherwise, you could try 10.2 instead. If it was a problem that affected that machine type, chances are it was solved later. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGGCV3tTMYHG2NR9URAkX/AJ4+QUL+1Fvuo2hLPl7lHpGX/D7sRgCfcuaU xB5nnp2rw6f3OABIWM07QH0= =AYy+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
M Harris wrote:
hi folks, I am trying to install opensuse 10.0 on a friends old Dell Inspiron 3200 :
Hardware checks out, machine was running W98 ....
I have disabled most of the "features" like serial, infrared, floppy, etc.
The machine boots from the CD-1 fine and I select bootup options 1024x768, acpi off, and press go... the system starts and find all the hardware (including the cdrom) ... usb... pci... and then goes searching for the info file...................................... and does not find it... asks for CD-1.....
So, the machine can boot from CD, but can not find the info file on the same CD? Can someone tell me what bootup option I need to get past this one?
Thanks much!
Vaguely remember coming across something similar in past. Had to manually load driver from text version of installer, bit of pain as needed to work out parameters for hardware driver involved. The CD boot is a BIOS related thing not a Linux Kernel related thing, unless the kernel can identify the correct driver it cannot communicate with it.
On Sunday 08 April 2007 03:15, G.T.Smith wrote:
The CD boot is a BIOS related thing not a Linux Kernel related thing, unless the kernel can identify the correct driver it cannot communicate with it. Thanks everyone for your responses... yous guys are right sure enough... it was the driver (and a no-dma thing). In fact, the safe options pretty much got it... whew... I mean Ubuntu would have been ok for him... but I've been bragging up Suse for so long he was going to be disappointed to not get to see it... anyway, I am happily loading the old Dell... Thanks dudes!
-- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
M Harris wrote:
On Sunday 08 April 2007 03:15, G.T.Smith wrote:
The CD boot is a BIOS related thing not a Linux Kernel related thing, unless the kernel can identify the correct driver it cannot communicate with it. Thanks everyone for your responses... yous guys are right sure enough... it was the driver (and a no-dma thing). In fact, the safe options pretty much got it... whew... I mean Ubuntu would have been ok for him... but I've been bragging up Suse for so long he was going to be disappointed to not get to see it... anyway, I am happily loading the old Dell... Thanks dudes!
Why didn't you just install 10.2? It would seem like a good thing to do, to stay on top of things, rather than go through all that to install an out of date option. Another thing that I've found if you can boot from a CD but not read it is in a couple of my dual CD systems. And using the other CD drive (or even moving it after boot) will often fix the problem. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 07 April 2007 13:14, M Harris wrote:
can not find the info file
See if this helps: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=178029 -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Carlos E. R.
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Carlos F Lange
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G.T.Smith
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Jonathan Arnold
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Kenneth Schneider
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M Harris
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Rajko M.
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riccardo35@gmail.com