Hi,

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Michael Woodward wrote:

I am having a ton of trouble installing from the CD. I get to the ash_ RPM files and it bails, i get

"an RPM error occured"

and then the installation bails. I am able to copy the contents of the CD off so i am not totally convinced that it is the CD but i am having some serious difficulty was wondering if there were any 'good' workarounds or solutions.

i am attempting to install the PPC version on a B&W G3 rev.1 (OS 8.6.1)on an external SCSI,

Any ideas?

I assume there are corrupt RPMs. Try to run

rpm --checksig --nopgp --nopgp suse/*/*.rpm

and see, if RPM complains about wrong MD5 checksums. This is safer than simply trying to copy the CD content.

Bye, LenZ

On Tue, Jan 16, Aaron Lawson wrote:

I've tried to install Suse linux 7.0 many times on my B&W G3, using YAST and YAST2 and several different kernels, but I always get problems with the actual software installation. The same thing happens every time: installation ends prematurely and I am left with a VERY incomplete system. I try to reinstall the full system and I get messages about unresolved dependencies (especially with ELF), even when I am installing "almost everything". I'm starting to wonder if there is a problem with the CD, but it sounds similar to your problem!

The "almost everything" selection is a bad thing. I will fillup your hard drive with all available packages, you don't need that. Just use "Standard" and add a few packages, or install them later with yast1.

A common mistake is to forget to format the partition with ext2, yast2 doesnt warn you.

Gruss Olaf

- > > I am having a ton of trouble installing from the CD. - > > I get to the ash_ RPM files and it bails, i get - > > - > > "an RPM error occured" - > > - > > and then the installation bails. I am able to copy - > > the contents of the CD off so i am not totally - > > convinced that it is the CD but i am having some - > > serious difficulty was wondering if there were any - > > 'good' workarounds or solutions. - > > - > > i am attempting to install the PPC version on a B&W G3 - > > rev.1 (OS 8.6.1)on an external SCSI, - > > - > > Any ideas? - > - > I assume there are corrupt RPMs. Try to run - > - > rpm --checksig --nopgp --nopgp suse/*/*.rpm - > - > and see, if RPM complains about wrong MD5 checksums. This is safer than - > simply trying to copy the CD content.

Another possibility is that the partitions that you are installing to, have not been properly formatted yet. This is a very common problem, as most people do not realize that after you make the partitions in drive setup, that they still have to be formatted by the linux installer. This will cause the exact problems that you are experiencing. There is an article written about this:

http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/leah_ppc_root_password.html

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