Funny you should mention "HP" I had the same installation problem with the model 6638 from HP. I ended up building a new machine and 8.0 installed just fine.... (SIDE-NOTE.. I got wine working ... and it is a lovely thing) -----Original Message----- From: Jostein Berntsen [mailto:jostber@online.no] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 5:14 AM To: Michael Norman; suse-linux-e Subject: RE: [SLE] Cannot install 8.0 Hi again, Been holidaying in the nice northern pre-summer weather. Back now with a lot of patience built up. I managed to install 8.0 with my CD's(DVD would not boot) on my new PC. Some packages was not installed for some reason, but I installed them afterwards and now it seems to work ok. I have the same experience as you with 7.1 and 7.3, both installed nicely on both my new and old computer, while 8.0 needed more persuasion to get working. To me that says that I have not a hardware problem, but rather that the 8.0 CD's/DVD is picky on the hardware type and setup. The error messages you report seems to be that the installation has problems talking with your CD-rom, which I suppose is on hdc? The solution for my new PC was to set the PIO to 0 in the BIOS for the CD-RW. I see you have done the same with no result, have you tried with PIO 1 or 2? I am now struggling with installing 8.0 on my old HP computer. The problem here is that the CD-rom will not boot because some BIOS problem. I tried to use the bootdisk for 8.0( http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/swiegra_bootdiskette80.html ) , but then I get an error message about not finding some file on the boot disk when the installation screen starts. I then change to the modules disk, and then I get this error message: 'Could not read the disk. Press one key for reboot.' A tricky one.. since I have tried with different floppies, with the same result. 7.1 and 7.3 also installed fine on this PC with the boot disk. I wonder if it could be caused by having a dual-boot system on this PC? Regards, Jostein
===== Original Message From Michael Norman
===== Hi I hope you have the patience for this : I've just done the following :
Attempts to perform a straight install :
All of these are an attempt to install the minimum graphical selection into /boot /swap and / which I keep as partitions for test installs. This has always worked before.
1. DVD in DVD drive - standard installation - standard pio setting in bios -power management off. Started to drop packages at 43 % and hung at 83 %.
error (ctl alt f4) : end_request: i/o error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector ..a lot of numbers
2. Cd in DVD drive safe setting. Started dropping packages (same ones) at 43% hung at 83% on reisferfs. error (ctrl alt f1) badalloc (insufficient resources for operation major episode 45 resource id 45 resource id 0X600254
3. as before but changed PIO to 0, failed to find mouse and hung.
4. as above tried apic enabled : no splash screen : hung error (ctrl alt f4) apm set display powerman disabled
5. as above man installation same failure
6. as obove but reset powerman in bios. Started to drop packages again at 43% failed on reiserfs.
errors as before.
I went on to try the cds in my cdrw drive and more or less repeated most of the above with some additions ie that sometimes I got thrown into a graphical install which I find too fiddly in yast2 to bother with.
Conclusions : I accept that cd drives can be unreliable and flaky, as I?m now on my 3rd or 4th of both dvd and cdrw drives. Once thaey go forget it. But I can still install 7.3 from both. Dropping packages starts at the same point in both drives from both dvd and cdrw and this is my second set of 8.0, SuSE having supplied a replacement when I reported the first set as faulty. I don?t suspect a hardware fault as 7.3 still installs.
Has anyone else come close to this experience ? Do I have two sets of broken discs ? I can post the hardware details later if anybody thinks that would help.
I've tried lots of other combinations as well. See what you think. I'll try a test 7.3 and update later.
--- Jostein Berntsen
wrote: Hi,
It would be interesting if you could post the error messages that you can see when doing Ctrl-Alt-F4, after an installation breakdown.
Regards,
Jostein
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