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[Philippe Landau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

william oakes wrote:
> I have installed OpenSuse 10.3 (from a downloaded ISO and from 
> the retail package) on two of my computers without a problem.
So you tried with two different DVDs/copies of 10.3 ?
The cable could be defective or the SCSI jumpers wrong.

> When I boot from the DVD to install v.10.3 from the retail package, 
> Yast comes up without any problems, 
> but bombs out when it tries to load the repositories from the DVD. 
> I have tried two separate DVD drives, the newest was a double 
> layer drive.  The double layer drive gives error message that no repositories 
> were found.  Running check media gives a message stating that the media is 
> broke.  The second DVD brings up Yast but fails to install the repositories 
> and keeps asking to retry. [...]
> This is the same DVD that I used to install 10.3 on the other computers.
Maybe the DVD is now defective ?
Scratches, dirt, damage to one of its inner layers (water; corrosion,
heat, bending, detaching, sun) are possibilities.

Kind regards     Philippe
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