-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2012-12-02 at 10:06 -0800, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 12/1/2012 6:01 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Most of the problems are with Windows 8, not 7. Thanks Carlos, that is good news, I hope... I am working with Windows 7 at the moment, but do have the opportunity to a free upgrade to Windows 8 later...
You are not seeing the problem I thought when I wrote that, I'm afraid, it is a different one.
I downloaded and created an installation DVD for openSuSE12.2 x64
One important step is to verify the DVD. There should be an entry in the menu where you can do it. I used K3B to create the DVD. The md5 sum that it calculated for the .iso image is the same as the md5 sum reported on the openSuSE web site. I also check the box to verify written data when I burned the DVD. Apart from that I do not know what else I can do.
I suppose that you told k3b to verify the DVD after burning it. Failing that, the other test is to boot the DVD and tell it to autocheck.
As I said, I think I did verify the DVD as best as I know how to. This problem is persisting, I start the install and at first it appears to be working OK, and I do see a lot of readable text messages, but shortly into the process the display of these messages becomes corrupted as they are outputted. My guess is that the installation process is trying to detect what video adapter I am using and to load a driver for it? I dunno how to proceed, I cannot copy/paste anything or even try to manually copy much of what I am seeing since the display becomes really corrupted. Like I said, at first the text messages become corrupted, then it certainly appears as if it is trying to bring up the initial GUI but can't display it properly either.
I always forget the incantations that one has to do in these cases. I think you need to boot the dvd with the option "nomodeset". Have a look at <https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/i386/openSUSE/12.2/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html>, section 5.1. Initializing Graphics with KMS (Kernel Mode Setting). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlC75NoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XcPgCgjlDc9VJnmsI/ekMKSg1l8cdG 0P8Anib99qeanSAOybx0QPW5+WpZ+ogF =Eewd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org