On 2008/10/22 18:49 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:
Months ago I burned a 10.3 ppc boot.iso. Today I tried it on a G4 w/ 384M of RAM, starting with the self check of the media, and it failed. Afterward I downloaded the whole 11.0 DVD iso, checked the md5sum, then burned it on 10.2 using K3B. Media self check failed on it too. After trying to use it anyway several times, always crashing YaST2 at the end of package detailed selection, I tried just using it to start a network install. That too crashed at the end of package selection. So I tried to capture the y2logs, but that too fails. 'ls -l /sbin/sa*' gives me "/sbin/save_y2logs: No such file or directory", a totally absurd command response. I can see save_y2logs lives in /mounts/mp_0001/sbin. Why can't it work? Why don't 'ls -rt' or 'ls -alrt' work, while 'ls -l' does? Has anyone ever gotten 11.0 ppc to install?
I appreciate the many attempts in this thread to help me with this. As it turns out, all help was useful no more than indirectly, by keeping me motivated and thinking. The defect is obviously in some component of the 11.0 installation program. I got it to HTTP install from the "bad" DVD by doing everything the same as previously reported except for one thing: By doing all partitioning and formatting prior to letting the YaST2 GUI installation take over (before accepting the license agreement), everything went smoothly, just like a normal i386 installation. I did the partitioning with pdisk by using the 10.3 install on the original target HD as a map to what partitions are required, then the command line mkfs.ext3, mkswap & tune2fs tools. I've rebooted subsequent to the first boot and configuration cleanup. It's now in the middle of online updating, just like on a P4. :-) This is the error messages onscreen after the last failed attempt: *** Starting YaST2 *** error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) terminate called after throwing an instance of 'zypp: Exception' what (): Cannot open file /etc/zypp/locks YaST got signal 6 at YCP /mounts/MP_0001/usr/share/YaST2/clients/inst_packages.ycp:49 /usr/lib/YaST2/startup/YaST2.call: line 480: 2459 Aborted (core dumped) $OPT_FBITERM y2base "$Y2_MODULE_NAME" $Y2_MODE_FLAGS $Y2_MODULE_ARGS &Y2_UI_ARGS *** An error occurred during the installation *** This is the error messages from media self test of the DVD, similar to that of the mini CDs, in reporting _DVD_ failure:
5 openSUSE-DVD-11.0, 100% *** Checksum wrong. This DVD is broken.
Main Menu I have y2logs, hwinfo, & other data saved if some dev thinks this should be pursued as a new bug in 11.1B3/Factory, which is what I would have installed if there was any media to start an install from. -- "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry." James 1:19 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org