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Hi - I downloaded the ISO image for Leap 42.2 to install it on my brand spanking new ASUS laptop and ran into an unexpected issue. (I did verify the MD5 checksum so suspect the DVD I put the image on is OK.) I would verify that the DVD is really OK. If the boot menu has the
On 2016-12-17 03:40, Marc Chamberlin wrote: option to verify DVD, do it. When I tried to verify the DVD from the boot menu I get exactly the same results as I get when trying to install openSuSE. In other words, the BIOS loads the initial boot code from the DVD (with a lot of text messages being displayed) then tries to start up the kernel. And at that
Thanks Carlos for your responses also... I will intersperse my replies to your comments... Marc... On 12/17/2016 5:11 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: point system loses the ability to communicate with the DVD drive, so the verification of the DVD fails. Not because the image on the DVD is necessarily bad, but because apparently the kernel, once started, cannot communicate with the DVD drive at all...
The installation starts up OK with a lot of text output and gets to the point where 3 overlapped green bars are showing progress and at that You mean that the boot starts up OK. Not the installation really.
Correct, sorry I don't fully understand the nuances in the steps taken during an installation process, so I over-simplified my communication attempts in trying to explain what I observed.
point it opens up a dialog box asking me what the URL is for the repository. It gives me 3 options for the CD, the hard drive, and the internet URL. Are you really using the full DVD image? Not the network install image?
I am using a full DVD image.
I chose CD obviously but it acts like nothing is there and keeps asking. My guess is that something is wrong with the basic CD/DVD driver that is being installed? Funny that the installation started up OK from the DVD but then it appears to lose the ability to talk to it at some point... Make sure that you are using the full DVD image. If it is, then I would try using an USB stick instead.
I have never tried to do an installation from a USB stick before. Not sure I know how to A) put an image on a USB stick, and B) how to boot from a USB stick. (The BIOS did not present me with that option in setting up boot orders.) I guess I can try doing some internet searches to see if I can grok how to do this... In the meantime, I think I will download the Tumbleweed version and try that approach if doing the install from a USB stick proves to be too challenging... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org