Robert Cunningham wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 1:41 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:01 -0700, Don Raboud wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 10:45 am, David Johanson wrote:
Every combination available has been tried, including the ACIP off version. All result in exactly the same failure point, that is, after loading 3-4 packages, YaST can't find the DVD/CD drive containing the install media, and the DVD drive is an IDE device. In other words, it's an IDE, NOT SCSI problem! It's a ridiculous error and should be fixed by Novell rather than saying they don't support SCSI.. Prior to saying they won't support me, I had to go through checking out the RAM, each HD, and so forth, even though the box has three other OSs running perfectly, namely win2K, SuSE 9.3, and Mepis 3.3 of which I had identified at the start of the tech support request
David,
Any chance of a network install? Put the installation media in a directory on another machine and use NFS? Doesn't address the issues but might be a workaround.
(I have not used 10, so this may not work. It was a possibility in 9.3 though.) -- Don
I used network install for my laptop using ftp and it worked fine. I too was having DVD/CD problems (it is my drive in my case).
-- Ken Schneider
Must be my day for recommending CD/DVD drive firmware updates via www.CDFreaks.com. Third time today. They have both manufacturer and third-party CD/DVD drive firmwares listed with links to go get them. Usual cautions about flashing firmwares of course. I use them to get information on what changes are in the firmwares, what they are supposed to fix, etc. And in the case of third-party firmwares, what testing has been done, what success or failures have been reported, etc.
Seems like you've covered almost everything else but I didn't see any mention of firmwares on those 4 CD/DVD devices.
Stan
David
Several things come to mind to try, I have saw several systems with a bad memory chip that would only show up when the memory filled up enough on the install to fail, try running memtest overnight to check this. You all so don't mention if you have used the media to install in another system I have saw several bad media in the past from SuSE.. One other drastic check is to remove all extra cards in the MB and install with just a IDE hard drive and see if all goes well then add cards and hard drives one by one, then with everything running do an upgrade and have it install onto the SCSI drives
I've run the memory check thing and it all went according to Hoyle, although I only ran it for a bit over an hour; I can always run it overnight but I doubt that this is the problem as I can use these drives, and have, to install 9.3 on the same system (last week) and all went well. I rather doubt that the install of 9.3 is less demanding, system-wise, than is 10.0. However, always willing to try the long term check to see what happens although Novell tech support considered the test I performed as adequate. I have only attempted to install SuSE10 on this box but I have tried to work with two different commercial releases of SuSE 10, one from Novell a d the other from Linux Magazine, Jan 2006, issue #62 as well as using the CDs from the boxed set from Novell. ALL gave the exact same results. If I have to go to the extreme measure you mention it simply means that SuSE 10 is not ready for prime time IMNSHO; I don't have to do that for any of a half dozen other Linux distros I either have installed (currently SuSE 9.3 and Mepis 3.3) or the others that I have removed while trying the various approached to Linux. I appreciate the suggestion, but it falls into the too hard category and, to my way of thinking, way too much to ask to get a distro installed. ;-) dave