-----Original Message----- From: Lonn [mailto:lonn@lonnd.com] Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 16:43 To: suse-linux-e Cc: James Knott Subject: RE: [SLE] Changing Installation Source brings to file system crash
-----Original Message----- From: James Knott [mailto:james.knott@rogers.com] Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 16:13 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Changing Installation Source brings to filesystem crash
Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
If you had properly set up the local copy and removed the DVD entry, that shouldn't be happening. While I have a DVD drive on this computer, I copied the DVD contents to the hard drive and configured Yast to look there. I haven't had that problem you're referring to. I just copied all DVD "as is" to the folder in "/root/SuSE Install" which I created. Then from YaST I added the Local Directory and browsed to the folder "SuSE Install". First time I removed SuSE DVD installation
James Knott wrote: source from that list - it crashed, next time(after installing it again) I just added Local Directory and did'nt touch DVD Installation source - the result was the same. It happened already 4 times, now I even afraid to copy that disk. Maybe the problem is in space which I put in the folder "SuSE Install" name, but I doubt it.
If you can't install from it, you must have something configured wrong. On my system, I copied the DVD to /home/SUSE/SUSE_10.0 and Yast shows the installation source as dir:///home/SUSE/SUSE_10.0/ . You can also point to one of the ftp sites.
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Sergey,
Did you accidentally copy the distribution to your root? If so, could have overwritten much you didn't want it to. Also, was the copy successful, or did you fill a partition without noticing it. You said you copied the distribution, turned the computer off, and next AM it wouldn't boot.
Did you do a proper shutdown? Have you checked the filesystem? 'fsck' for some other systems, must be similar on SuSE 10 -- if your rescue media will load.
Lonn
Sergey, You reported your first error message was a "16" when your computer failed to boot. That means your GRUB is corrupt or your files system is corrupt. Can you reconstruct your GRUB? Lonn