Donn Washburn wrote:
Hey Group:
As a long time SuSE user I have never gotten the DVD to work. It has always failed stating that it could not find the source file lists. Well they have either fixed it or I beat it.
Try it if yours has fails. This required 2 drives one CD and one DVD. (mine is setup - Secondary Master is a CD and Secondary Slave is a DVD)
1. Bootup on the DVD and do a "Manual Installation". Answer all questions. 2. Insert the CD#1 in your CD drive and from the Start Installation" menu select "Verify". Here seems to be the key. Note that verify checks the CD and not the DVD. Why? It seems that by default "DEVICE=" your CD and not the DVD. If you cause it to error out the error message shows which devices to check. 3. When the Verify process finishes - hit "Eject" and remove the CD#1 4. Hit OK and off goes the DVD.
This test was run on 3 machines and did work. Whereas a direct DVD load failed.
I booted from the DVD on my laptop (x86_64), got some such problems, so I CTRL-ALT-F2, logged in as root, no symlinks for /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd, I made the symlinks to /dev/hdc, but I stll had problems where it couldn't mount /dev/hda1. I could manually mount and umount hda1. I decided to give it one more try and it all worked. I'm not really sure what got it finally going. BTW the DVD verified OK when I tried it. I shall see what happens on the next box which also has a combo CD/DVD drive. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====