Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Leendert Meyer <leen.meyer@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 June 2006 15:07, Jos van Kan wrote:
> Did anyone succeed in completing an installation of SL 10.1 over the
> internet? In trying to do an installation onto a Parallels VM of 10,1 I had
> to jump through a couple of hoops (partition the virtual HD to offer a swap
> partition or Yast wouldn't start, load a NE2000 driver for the virtual
> ethernet card), but finally, after a 78MB download, the familiar Yast
> installation screen appeared . That was the good news. The bad news is that
> the process suffocates in step 3 "Initializing catalogs".
> The little clock at the mouse pointer turns for like 10 minutes and then it
> stops and everything hangs. At first I thought it was a Parallels thing,
> but in the Linux forum at least four people mentioned the same problem,
> none having stumbled on a solution. Because everything hangs, I can't look
> at logs or whatever, so that makes life a little difficult. :-)
> I'm still using 9.3 as my main system, but I wanted to have a look at 10.1.
> So it's not a matter of life or death, but it boggles the mind somewhat.
>
> The VM uses 256 MB of the available 512MB and the size of the virtual swap
> partition is 512MB.

Did you check the virtual consoles at <Ctrl>+<Alt>-<F1>..<F10>? Any /error/ 
messages?

Cheers,

Leen

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