Hello, Installing from DVD and the installer is hanging at, 'Searching for info file', and doesn't go beyond that point. How do I get around this? Also, as an aside, are there more apps on the DVD or do the CDs and DVD contain the same number of applications? Many thanks, ~James
James, On Saturday 26 November 2005 18:37, James Parra wrote:
Hello,
Installing from DVD and the installer is hanging at, 'Searching for info file', and doesn't go beyond that point. How do I get around this?
Patience. That stage can take a few minutes. I don't know why, but it's been that way for at least the past few releases, if I recall correctly.
Also, as an aside, are there more apps on the DVD or do the CDs and DVD contain the same number of applications?
As it has been since the distribution began to be supplied on both DVD (two of them until they went to dual-layer DVDs) as well as a set of CDs, the DVD contains many packages not included on the CDs.
Many thanks,
~James
Randall Schulz
Installing from DVD and the installer is hanging at, 'Searching for info file', and doesn't go beyond that point. How do I get around this?
Patience. That stage can take a few minutes. I don't know why, but it's been that way for at least the past few releases, if I recall correctly.
Patiently waiting, although 45 minutes seems a long, long wait. If it is still at the same spot by morning, what would be the next step? Thanks for the info on the DVD/CD question. Best regards, ~James
James, On Saturday 26 November 2005 20:39, James Parra wrote:
Installing from DVD and the installer is hanging at, 'Searching for info file', and doesn't go beyond that point. How do I get around this?
Patience. That stage can take a few minutes. I don't know why, but it's been that way for at least the past few releases, if I recall correctly.
Patiently waiting, although 45 minutes seems a long, long wait. If it is still at the same spot by morning, what would be the next step?
45 minutes does seem like a long time. How much mass storage do you have? How much of it is occupied by files? How many of them? How much RAM is there? How fast is the CPU? I wish I knew what it was doing in that phase, but I have a vague recollection of disk activity, so it could be dependent on how many files it has to search through including all devices with pre-existing file systems.
Thanks for the info on the DVD/CD question.
Best regards,
Good luck.
~James
Randall Schulz
45 minutes does seem like a long time. How much mass storage do you have? How much of it is occupied by files? How many of them? How much RAM is there? How fast is the CPU?
Going on an hour and a half now. The server has two SCSI drives, an IDE DVD drive, two CPUs (1 Ghz), and one gig of RAM. Sorry about the direct reply; it happens when I use 'reply-to-all' and forget to remove the original poster's address. I have a feeling that this will hang indefinitely.... Best Regards, ~James
James, On Saturday 26 November 2005 21:48, James Parra wrote:
45 minutes does seem like a long time. How much mass storage do you have? How much of it is occupied by files? How many of them? How much RAM is there? How fast is the CPU?
Going on an hour and a half now. The server has two SCSI drives, an IDE DVD drive, two CPUs (1 Ghz), and one gig of RAM.
Sorry about the direct reply; it happens when I use 'reply-to-all' and forget to remove the original poster's address.
I have a feeling that this will hang indefinitely....
Yes. I think there's a problem. Have you tried restarting the process? Perhaps within the next several hours someone who knows more about this problem will read this and supply a truly helpful answer.
Best Regards,
~James
Randall Schulz
Randall R Schulz a écrit :
James,
On Saturday 26 November 2005 21:48, James Parra wrote:
45 minutes does seem like a long time. How much mass storage do you have? How much of it is occupied by files? How many of them? How much RAM is there? How fast is the CPU?
Going on an hour and a half now. The server has two SCSI drives, an IDE DVD drive, two CPUs (1 Ghz), and one gig of RAM.
Sorry about the direct reply; it happens when I use 'reply-to-all' and forget to remove the original poster's address.
I have a feeling that this will hang indefinitely....
Yes. I think there's a problem. Have you tried restarting the process?
Perhaps within the next several hours someone who knows more about this problem will read this and supply a truly helpful answer.
Best Regards,
~James
Randall Schulz
Hello, I reported the same problem a few days ago while installing SuSE 10 on my new ASUS MB. I've 2x500GB SATA disks, 1GB memory and a dualcore extreme edition processor. I solved it with the boot parameter "manual=1", I then install the "piix" and "ata_piix" modules required for my drives (note that SuSE 10 sets a "*" for the required modules, if SuSE knows what is necessary why not load the modules automatically ?). Then I launched install and it worked without problem. Michel.
Catimimi wrote:
Randall R Schulz a écrit :
James,
On Saturday 26 November 2005 21:48, James Parra wrote:
45 minutes does seem like a long time. How much mass storage do you have? How much of it is occupied by files? How many of them? How much RAM is there? How fast is the CPU?
Going on an hour and a half now. The server has two SCSI drives, an IDE DVD drive, two CPUs (1 Ghz), and one gig of RAM.
Sorry about the direct reply; it happens when I use 'reply-to-all' and forget to remove the original poster's address.
I have a feeling that this will hang indefinitely....
Yes. I think there's a problem. Have you tried restarting the process?
Perhaps within the next several hours someone who knows more about this problem will read this and supply a truly helpful answer.
Best Regards,
~James
Randall Schulz
Hello,
I reported the same problem a few days ago while installing SuSE 10 on my new ASUS MB. I've 2x500GB SATA disks, 1GB memory and a dualcore extreme edition processor.
I solved it with the boot parameter "manual=1", I then install the "piix" and "ata_piix" modules required for my drives (note that SuSE 10 sets a "*" for the required modules, if SuSE knows what is necessary why not load the modules automatically ?). Then I launched install and it worked without problem.
Michel.
I had this "hang" problem on install with large partitions, both sata and ata. Also on boht suse 9.3 and 10.0. I solved it by partitioning my drive to smaller sizes, less than 100gb. Not sure why the large partitons were a problem though. I'm sure someone knows far more than me about this. Jim
Hello, After using many different Linux distros to figure out what was hanging the install, I think I found the problem. It appears the problem involves the loading of the Symbios|53c1010-33 driver/module during the install. There are no IDE drives in this server and the installer can't find a device to create a file system. Any ideas on how to resolve this? Many thanks, -- James
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