-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2016-12-17 21:04, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 12/17/2016 10:46 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Thanks again Carlos for responding! OK I got a bit further using a USB stick, following some other suggestions I installed ImageWriter on another openSuSE system and used it to put the ISO image onto a USB stick. Then yes I figured out that I had to have the USB stick connected before I could get the BIOS to recognize it as an option for configuring the boot order. I then configured the boot order to install first from the USB stick and proceeded with the installation.
Ok...
That actually got me a bit further along, and I did get pass the point where the kernel got installed and the graphical GUI's came up to handle the rest of the installation process. However I quickly hit the next snag, when asked where I want to install the new system, the partitioner is only seeing the USB stick. It does not see or present me with the ability to install the system on either the SSD drive or the hard drive that is in my laptop! So in addition to not being able to use the DVD drive, it appears the installer cannot work with either of the hard drives on my new laptop... Any suggestions on how to proceed? Thanks again in advance...
(This is really surprising! I don't see any reason why my DVD and disk drives on a new laptop should be causing such an issue, isn't there standard default drivers and a standard API for these things?)
I would drop to a text console (ctrl-alt-f2, f3, f4...) and run fdisk -l to find out what is in there. For instance, if the disk has a traditional partition table with four primaries already, then you can not install there, till you delete at least one. So take a photo of that screen and upload to susepaste.org, for instance. Or boot some live distro and then paste the text here. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlhVrbEACgkQja8UbcUWM1w6qAD+P2YjEB1+Tq4xf38irTqkNhOe +G0PzYimoYSnqsLMb5QA/0tjZNJtwpRToKh03emuJbhdy1PR3ykf5pfWcwXLZTUN =gijU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org