Yeeap ! Weel it is sad, I've been working with SuSE since 5.0. Next week I have presentation of Linux stuff and I can't use SuSE. Instalation errors: from ftp missing adsl and no invoking dhcp, from hd: erros: laike yours: "Err " unknow Erro! DETAL: File PckRetriver.cc LINE 619" or inst_execute_yast: 921 command_ti="/inst_ing/sbin/inst_setup/yast1 yast1 returns code is 256 ( errono=2) So now I'm playing with RH and Mandrake ( do not like but instalation it's working just fine - bootdisk Mandrake even support adls ) Sad story, isn't it ? Julo ----------------------------- On Wed 21 Nov 01 06:23, you wrote: Hi boys,

I confirm again that after dowloading the whole of 6.5G SUSE7.3 setup gives me the following error when about to select packages:

ERROR: Unkown Error!, Detail:0 FILE PkgRetriever.cc LINE:622

I am trying to re-get the relevant packages (YAST, and inst-sys), as well as the bootdisks from the net

This machine used to run 7.2 before, and the hardware is okay.

Cheers,

From: "Karol Pietrzak"

Hi again. I'll send to this list a post. That SOLVES the problem: ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi guys, It took a while but I solved the problem, and now writing you this from a fresh installed box. In short: download the following directories again (ore at least the files you need) /pub/suse/i386/7.3/suse/setup (especially the descr dir !) /pub/suse/i386/7.3/suse/images (at least the .inf files ) The long story: The problem has something to do with the ftp-download we did. I'm not 100% what went wrong because I tried and changed so many things.. Here goes.. Monday morning I wake up, late for work, have to hurry like hell, then suddenly it hits me. I don't know if that ever happens to you, it's kinda funny, I should be worrying about not getting even more late at work than I already am, meanwhile all this stuff goes round in my head, stuff that shouldn't be as important as it sometimes seems to be to me. NEED TO GET THAT SUSE-INSTALL TO WORK ! D@MN$D !! Resistance is futile.... anyway... You probably are aware of the two ways you can download from ftp, ascii and binary, if not, you are now. Check your client, it'll have a feature to switch. That's what I thought was causing the trouble. The funny thing is, I never changed anything in my client. I'm mostly using gftp and it's set auto, which means it checks for itself whether it should use asccii or binary mode. I compared the description files to the ones still on the server and there were indeed some minor differences in file sizes. I re-downloaded them (still in auto mode!) and for some bizarre reason they now transferred in the right size. Done. Or so I thought. Yast. Install packages. Bang. Crash. More work to do. So some relatives decided to visit me. They always do. Don't get me wrong, I'm very fond of them. But they always show up at the wrong time at my place. Next day...(Today) I started an installation directly from suse's ftp and since it's so busy these days :-) it gave me a chance to see exactly what files it was getting at the moment it all went wrong. I had already figured out that the package descriptions are in the /setup/descr dir (see above) along with some pre-configured selections. First the package descriptions (in the chosen language .ser and .pkd files), then the preconf selections (.sel files). Another file from that same directory called info. I had already downloaded them again. They were good. Then some other files from the directory images were transferred, .inf files, probably important for the kernel images. Same procedure. Yast. Install packages and.... !!! VICTORY !!! Now, I know where it went wrong, but I'm still not sure what went wrong and why. I did use another ftp-client (IglooFTP), just to make sure. Another thing I changed was the ftp-server itself. First several hundred packages I got from ftp2.suse.com, then I switched to ftp.gwdg.de which is much, much faster (tip of the day). Still I wouldn't dare to say it was either Suse's fault nor Gftp's. Hope it'll help you any further, let me know if it does. Met vriendelijke groet, Jos van Kessel. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. ---------------------------------------------------- This is e post from a Jos van Kessel Thanks alot Jos