On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:46 am, David Johanson wrote:
I purchased the boxed set of 10 and have been trying for over a month to get it installed on my SCSI based system. I put in a service request to Novell over a month ago and we have been "playing" around since then trying to see what's wrong with my system. When we finally reached a point of determining that the problem was that YaST was getting confused with the install because I have more than one CD/DVD drive in the system, it was announced, today, that Novell does not support installs on SCSI based systems anymore except on a pay for call basis and it was suggested I ask about the install problem on this list.
So, has anyone had any problems installing on a SCSI based system and if so what has been the work around?
System consists of the following:
4 matched removable SCSI HDs, only one of which is turned on during the install 1 each DVD writer and reader and 1 each CD writer and reader. All except the DVD writer are SCSI, the DVD writer is IDE and is the device used for the install attempts (I've tried all 4 devices but all fail during the loading of the packages) because it ( the IDE Sony DVD) is by far the fastest device.
You don't mention the specifics of your SCSI devices... (vendor, model, etc) but I have installed 10.0 on two scsi systems using Adaptec 29160 controllers. I would guess it is a change in the way the kernel handles your particular scsi devices.
Below is a typical error I get when trying to perform the install during the package writing phase: "error: /var/adm/YaSTInstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_ 0X00000001/MEDIA/suse/i586/ghostscripts-fonts-other-8.15rc1-29.i586rpm:MD5 digest: BAD Expected (cb29d41081097a3cd4feeda767aeb453) != (e8aa68850260b19cbc0d44f43a330b2d)" This error will repeat with just a different package name for all packages other than the first three packages.
Below is a quote from Novell tech service:
"After installation of the first packages the access to /mnt/var/ gets lost, resulting in errors like:
Could not open logfile '/mnt/var/log/YaST2/y2logRPM' cannot get exclusive lock on /mnt/var/lib/rpm/Packages cannot open Packages database in /mnt/var/lib/rpm
Yast got confused by your quite unusual system."
I've installed all versions of SuSE Linux, from 7.3 - 9.3 inclusive, on this box before without this problem. Any help on how to get 10 installed greatly appreciated.
dave