Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Don Raboud <don.raboud@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 30 November 2005 10:45 am, David Johanson wrote:
> Every combination available has been tried, including the ACIP off
> version. All result in exactly the same failure point, that is, after
> loading 3-4 packages, YaST can't find the DVD/CD drive containing the
> install media, and the DVD drive is an IDE device. In other words, it's
> an IDE, NOT SCSI problem!  It's a ridiculous error and should be fixed
> by Novell rather than saying they don't support SCSI.. Prior to saying
> they won't support me, I had to go through checking out the RAM, each
> HD, and so forth, even though the box has three other OSs running
> perfectly, namely win2K, SuSE 9.3, and Mepis 3.3 of which I had
> identified at the start of the tech support request
David, 

Any chance of a network install?  Put the installation media in a directory on 
another machine and use NFS?  Doesn't address the issues but might be a 
workaround.

(I have not used 10, so this may not work.    It was a possibility in 9.3 
though.)
-- 
Don