Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:46 -0500, David Johanson wrote:

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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.

I do not know about scsi but I would like to here about the multiple drive issue. I have both a cdrom and cdrw on one system. Is 10.0 crippled in this way?? Are you using a Promis card for the ide drives?

No, I'm running a ASUS P4T533 mobo and intel proc. The SCSI drives (DVD reader, CDROM writer and reader) run off an Adaptec 29320 Ultra320 card, the IDE DEV writer runs of the IDE primary chain. There is no problem other than YaST is broken and Novell refuses to either admit so and/or fix it. They have refused to support my paid copy stating, after a month of jerking me around, that their "free" support does not include SCSI installations. Note that the install is being performed using an IDE drive, not via the SCSI chain at all. The drive in question performs the entire text portion of setting up to install, provides the gui portion of the install to include identifying the HD to be used, setting up the partition scheme for the drive, formats the drive, finds the mouse and identifies it, picks the time zone and location, and performs the package selection by default or lets me elect to personalize what I want installed, it then proceeds to the package install phase, loads (repeatedly) either 3 or 4 packages (always the same set) and then gets "lost" trying to find the drive its being running from all along. This setup is what I've been using to install versions 7.2 - 9.3 inclusive, and it's never gotten "lost" before. Thus my opening statement, there is no multiple drive problem. OBTW, the behavior repeats regardless of which of the four drives I use to do the install and it repeats when I used different pieces of media. So, is 10 crippled, don't know about "10" per say, but I'd say YaST is totally hosed. dave