Tom Allison wrote:
I was testing the boot.iso installation yesterday and was unable to make any headway. Their is a failure at the Floppy IO, during the YAST configuration where it is checking packages.
As far as I am concerned there is no way that Yast is trying to install Suse from Floppy, which gives me to think if you are really writing about your experience, or just marketing some other OS.
Please fix this.
This shows that you do not have that much experience with computers and software, otherwise you would not ask for this in a mailinglist and without giving anymore details.
I am currently installation Suse from a friends Personal Edition. At least this way I will be able to see what Suse looks like.
However, it's a pretty grim start for what is proclaimed to be one of the better distributions out there. What surprises me most is that this boxen has been used to install everything as a test bed and it is here that it just can't get started.
The CD installation is extremely unstable on the XWindow GUI. I'm not sure that I will even be able to finish, but time will tell.
I cannot confirm any of this, in fact I think that it is very unlikely that this is related to the installation GUI if it happened at all, as there are so many users who installed Suse 8.2 without any problems, leaving aside some that had problems due to hardware failure but certainly not with a floppy drive that is not needed when Yast2 is up, especially if you are using the boot.iso, which would hint to a ftp-installation, or hd-installation (unlikely) but certainly not a floppy-disk installation. Further an I/O error with the fd might lead to Yast2 not including it into the configuration. However, if you used it for the boot-images successfully it sounds unlikely that it suddenly fails after that. If you used the CD boot.iso you would have disabled it in the BIOS. Knowing about testbed etc. shows some knowledge of computers, which strucks me because of your fix comment and the inability to give more detail, apart from trying to install 8.2 without fd, i.e. disabling it.
I have not tried RedHat on this boxen yet, but I have tried Slackware, Gentoo, Debian with success.
In my opinion and I might be wrong this posting is meant to market some other OS, or just very ignorant of the computer knowledge shown in some parts of it. Whoever just installs Redhat, Slackware, Gentoo and Debian surely must have some knowledge in order not to fail at a floppy-problem without giving more information or trying disabling it. Sven