Damian: Thank you. I think I am going to get several more CD-RWs for this kind of thing soon. I have to get something, I'm almost out of blanks :( I don't think it could be the media. The discs are Sony. I bought them in a 100 pack and I've used them for everything, including data backups, other ISOs, and VCDs. This is the first time I've ever had a problem. It did occur to me that my CD/DVD writer could go bad... It's a cheap model and I don't even remember the brand name. But I don't the drive is bad because there are others who have the same problem as I am having. Here are a couple of others, from a Google search, who have had the same problem as I have: http://www.computerforum.com/showthread.php?p=154340#post154340 http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/showthread.php?t=113183 I also tried to make the CDs on a Windows laptop with the CD software that came with the computer. The CDs finished without reporting any errors, but that software ("Sonic Record Now!") doesn't allow me to set the burning speed. I don't have any retail Windows programs other than the OS itself. I've tried to burn the CDs on four different operating systems because I went ahead and formatted my hard drive before thoroughly checking the media (DOH!): Fedora Core 3: k3b, (Thank Goodness for) Knoppix: k3b, Ubuntu (last resort, from Linux Format magazine): k3b, Windows XP Pro: "Sonic Record Now!" (came with HP/Comaq laptop). I thought I might try using cdrecord, but isn't k3b just a front end to that anyway? Thanks, Vince P.S.: Actually, Ubuntu is turning out to be a nice distro... I still want SuSE, though :) -- Vince On 10/11/05, Dazzle wrote:

Hello,

On 10/11/05, Vincente Aggrippino wrote:

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I want to be a convert to SuSE from RedHat (Fedora Core). So, I've

Congratulations :-)

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I used a download manager to download from many of the mirrors at once. I checked the MD5s against the ones in the MD5SUMS file from one of the mirrors and they all matched, but they didn't match during the check at the beginning of the installation. I tried to install with them anyway, but I got a lot of read errors.

Try to use some better media. I burned the CDs with both Nero and K3B using LG DVD-RAM 4163B and Asus I-don't-remember-the-model on LG and Traxdata media and I don't have any problems. I also made DVDs from CDs and no problem again.

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To summarize the rest of my efforts... I tried downloading all from one mirror... I tried downloading all from a different mirror... I tried downloading and burning on another computer... I tried downloading and burning at 8x... I would've tried downloading directly from ftp.suse.com http://ftp.suse.comhttp://ftp.suse.com, but I get the message that they aren't accepting connections right now...

Yeah... that's what's happening when a new version of a distribution like this is released... try to find a mirror.

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I still haven't had any luck. I won't admit how many CDs I've thrown away :( I know I'm not the only one with this problem... Google is my friend, but I still don't know a solution.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Use -RW media, and if everything it's working write them on -R media.

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Thank you, Vince

Your welcome, -- Damian Mihai Liviu Phone: +40741226993 Yahoo: liviudm_cisco URL: http://liviudm.blogspot.com

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:08:34AM +0100, Simon Dales wrote:

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 7:34 am, Vincente Aggrippino wrote:

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I still haven't had any luck. I won't admit how many CDs I've thrown away :( I know I'm not the only one with this problem... Google is my friend, but I still don't know a solution.

Don't bother with CD burning; mount the ISOs on your local server and then install from there. You will need a boot image CD, which does need burning, unless you have a floppy drive etc.

Not everybody has a server. What I do is a discless instalation : http://www.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD Also mounting the CD's is not really needed. Just use `makeSUSEdvd -i -s /dir/to/go` and it puts itself in e.g. /srv/www/htdocs/suse/10.0 and you will be able to use it to install of http. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:12:35AM +0800, Vincente Aggrippino wrote:

I started to try the disc-less installation method from the link posted by houghi. I'm sure it would've worked okay, but there were some prerequisites for the makeSUSEdvd script which I didn't have and I didn't take the time to track down all of them.

What extra's were required? What I know the script needs only the following: create_package_descr This can be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/makesusedvd as indicated in the last version of the script. mkisofs wich should be easily installable with RedHat. rpm and I am not sure what distro you are using, so I do not know wether or not it is available. As you say you are a longtime RedHat user, I useme you run that and then it is availble. I am really curious what prerequirements you did not meet. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:16:55PM +0800, Vincente Aggrippino wrote:

The deal-breaker for me was RPM. ( http://www.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs#You_do_not_have_SUSE_running) At the time, I was on Ubuntu: a Debian based distro which doesn't have RPM. I installed Ubuntu because I had formatted my hard drive earlier without thoroughly checking my discs. So, I was without an OS. The install disc cam with an issue of Linux Format magazine.

Would have thought that `apt-get install rpm` or something like that would solve that. Must try it out when I have time. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html