Tried to used YaST instead of YaST2 to install. Allowed the installer to choose the whole of the second hard disk to automatically allocate filesystems. It was able to create filesystems and mount them. When it started the installation of the packages, it comes up with the following error message. CD 1 package aaa_base-2000.7.24-4 is for a different architecture. When I attempted to find the description of the package aaa_base to see if I could avoid installing it, I find that it is one of the packages selected for a Minimum System install. I find the description of aaa_base to be "This package installs several important configuration files. Central scripts like SuSEconfig are also in this package". Could anyone please help with a workaround? Thanks, Sankaran

Subject: [SLE] SuSE Linux Professional 7.0 Installation help Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 16:02:43 -0500

Greetings.

I am trying to install SuSE Linux Professional 7.0 on a PC with the following configuration and am running into problems during the installation.

Compaq Presario Pentium IV 1.6 GHz 512 MB RAM Two 80GB Hard Disks (75 GB each, formatted)

I need to install 7.0 and not 7.3 since my main interest is in running Oracle Apps 11.5.5 on this machine. This is only certified on SuSE Linux 7.0.

The machine came pre-loaded with Windows XP on the entire first hard disk. I used Partition Magic to reduce the NTFS file system to 30 GB and have 45GB left. I have installed a second 80GB hard disk (75GB after formatting).

Used the default YaST2 setup program with several different options and always ran into the same problem. With the 'Default packages' setting, after processing 41 packages, YaST2 comes up with an error that says "RPM returned an error". When I click OK, installation proceeds and errors after processing 241 packages. Again it is "RPM returned an error". When I click OK again, after a couple of minutes it comes up with the message "Root password could not be set. You won't be able to login!".

Same sequence of errors in all the different installation settings.

1. Let YaST2 automatically detect the 45GB free space in the first hard disk and let it automatically define the boot, swap and root file systems.

2. Let YaST2 automatically install on the second hard disk and let it automatically define the boot, swap and root file systems.

3. Define a Linux ext2 file system on the 45GB free space on the first hard disk, point this as the place I'd like to have Linux installed and let YaST2 automatically divide this up for boot, swap and root.

4. Change the software selection between Default, Default with Office, Almost Everything. The only difference is that the number of packages processed when I encounter the error is different between the three choices.

I appreciate your time in helping me out.

Thanks,

Sankaran

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