LinuxWorld999 wrote:

On Saturday 01 November 2003 08:09, Richard Bos wrote:

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Op zaterdag 1 november 2003 02:23, schreef E.F.Maurer:

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Has anyone else had troubles installing from the dvd? The computer booted fine, but when it got to the software proposal I got a no packages found / media error message. I ended up installing from the cd's and now i can't even change the source of installation to the dvd. Yast doesn't even check the dvd drive, only my cd burner.

I can mount the dvd, and the packages are there, so I don't think it's a media problem.

LW999

I have seen several unit fail SuSE 9.0 DVD install.. I have a rather new Samsung DVD with all firmware upgrades. The DVD boots fine and makes it way to the screen that searchs the DVD for "Packages". There it fails with an error like -> Unable to load package description. My system is setup as IDE Primary HDA (Master) and HDB (Slave) with IDE Secondary HDC (Master) is a CDROM and HDD (Slave) is the DVD combo burner. Both CDs are thought of as ide-scsi and therefore are /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1. SuSE 9.0 will boot off of the DVD but fails to be loaded properly. Also Yast2 about half the time fails to mount the CD due to the fact it is looking for /dev/hd or /dev/cdrom. If I manually mount the CD yast will go ahead and work. -- 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 a MSDOS Virus "Free Zone" OS Email: n5xwb@hal-pc.org Info: http://www.knoppix.net

On Saturday 01 November 2003 07:29, E.F.Maurer wrote:

On Saturday 01 November 2003 03:09, Richard Bos wrote:

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Op zaterdag 1 november 2003 02:23, schreef E.F.Maurer:

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Has anyone else had troubles installing from the dvd? The computer booted fine, but when it got to the software proposal I got a no packages found / media error message.

I did just notice a new thread ... [SLE] SuSE 9 install gotcha...

From: Chris Smith To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Today 05:40:01

Hi,

I've had this - don't know if anyone else has.

Can't install SuSE from the DVD if the drive is the secondary slave (fails to read package database). Works fine if it's the secondary master.

--------------- I'll have to give this a try.

I reinstalled after switching my dvd to master and all went well.

On Saturday 01 November 2003 23:34, Rafael E. Herrera wrote:

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I reinstalled after switching my dvd to master and all went well.

That may work for installation.

On my already updated system, I switched the drives' master/slave order and still could not make yast2 read the DVD as installation source. -- Rafael

That's really odd. I did notice when I opened the change source window this message ... dvd/// devices = /dev/dvd /dev/sr0 maurerfranklin@VMXLinux:~> ls -l /dev/dvd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2003-11-01 19:45 /dev/dvd -> hdc maurerfranklin@VMXLinux:~> ls -l /dev/cdrecorder lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2003-11-01 19:45 /dev/cdrecorder -> sr0 I wonder why and where both devices are listed under dvd/// Perhaps I'll try to change the source of installation and see if it works, but I don't want to mess it up.

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:35:12 -0500 "Rafael E. Herrera" wrote:

A temporary solution for those of you who haven't installed/upgraded yet, I would disconnect any extra CD-ROM drives and leave the DVD as master and the only cd drive in the system.

I installed 9.0 yesterday morning from dvd- (the only hiccup was, once installed, having to boot using acpi=no to stop the machine powering up and straightaway shutting down!), with a cdrw also installed in my box. However, when KDE came up it told me it had detected a new piece of hardware which was my cdrw, and it's now in fstab as a scsi and a ide drive. Terence

Quoting "E.F.Maurer" :

On Sunday 02 November 2003 03:11, Terence McCarthy wrote:

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On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:35:12 -0500

"Rafael E. Herrera" wrote:

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A temporary solution for those of you who haven't installed/upgraded yet, I would disconnect any extra CD-ROM drives and leave the DVD as master and the only cd drive in the system.

I installed 9.0 yesterday morning from dvd- (the only hiccup was, once installed, having to boot using acpi=no to stop the machine powering up and straightaway shutting down!), with a cdrw also installed in my box.

Was your dvd secondary master? with the cdr secondary slave? I think it works for install this way. But if you install with the drives in the opposite configuration(cdrw master) you can only install from the cds. Changing the order of the drives after installation doesn't seem to affect the outcome of trying to change the source of installation to dvd.

I've got a machine with DVD & CDRW as separate drives and got a strange error that it could find the installation medium when analysing the packages. My CDRW is the master with the DVD as Slave. When I took a CD out of the CDRW, it finally discovered the DVD again and continued with no problems. Adam

All the issue reminds me about the troubles i had with 8.0 & 8.2 installation on my Latitude C840 (only one optical, a combo CDRW/DVD). Looks like our favourite distro did not solve the issue yet. Anyway, with 8.2 i could solve the issue: forcing a load of ide scsi module (hdb=ide-scsi) performing a manual install loading some modules from the list of modules forcing the hdb=cdrom Sorry if I cannot help right now, but i did not write down the steps. Perhaps i could get a copy of 9.0... Look for another posting of mine of two to three months earlier. Bye Alle 15:03, domenica 2 novembre 2003, E.F.Maurer ha scritto:

On Sunday 02 November 2003 08:35, Adam Leach wrote:

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Quoting "E.F.Maurer" :

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On Sunday 02 November 2003 03:11, Terence McCarthy wrote:

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On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:35:12 -0500

"Rafael E. Herrera" wrote:

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A temporary solution for those of you who haven't installed/upgraded yet, I would disconnect any extra CD-ROM drives and leave the DVD as master and the only cd drive in the system.

I installed 9.0 yesterday morning from dvd- (the only hiccup was, once installed, having to boot using acpi=no to stop the machine powering up and straightaway shutting down!), with a cdrw also installed in my box.

Was your dvd secondary master? with the cdr secondary slave? I think it works for install this way. But if you install with the drives in the opposite configuration(cdrw master) you can only install from the cds. Changing the order of the drives after installation doesn't seem to affect the outcome of trying to change the source of installation to dvd.

I've got a machine with DVD & CDRW as separate drives and got a strange error that it could find the installation medium when analysing the packages. My CDRW is the master with the DVD as Slave.

When I took a CD out of the CDRW, it finally discovered the DVD again and continued with no problems

Hmmm! I think i might have had a cd in the drive when i first tried to install.

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