Hey Group: As a long time SuSE user I have never gotten the DVD to work. It has always failed stating that it could not find the source file lists. Well they have either fixed it or I beat it. Try it if yours has fails. This required 2 drives one CD and one DVD. (mine is setup - Secondary Master is a CD and Secondary Slave is a DVD) 1. Bootup on the DVD and do a "Manual Installation". Answer all questions. 2. Insert the CD#1 in your CD drive and from the Start Installation" menu select "Verify". Here seems to be the key. Note that verify checks the CD and not the DVD. Why? It seems that by default "DEVICE=" your CD and not the DVD. If you cause it to error out the error message shows which devices to check. 3. When the Verify process finishes - hit "Eject" and remove the CD#1 4. Hit OK and off goes the DVD. This test was run on 3 machines and did work. Whereas a direct DVD load failed. -- 73 de Donn Washburn __" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 Dump Microsoft Software - Stop virus email Email: n5xwb@hal-pc.org " http://counter.li.org " #279316
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This test was run on 3 machines and did work. Whereas a direct DVD load failed.
in a word, WOW ! I think I may have to save this one for the archives ... -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit
On Saturday 30 October 2004 03:05 pm, Donn Washburn wrote:
This test was run on 3 machines and did work. Whereas a direct DVD load failed.
Of course if you only have a single DVD drive machine it always works right off the bat. It's only been a problem for me on dual cd/dvd drive machines. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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Of course if you only have a single DVD drive machine it always works right off the bat. It's only been a problem for me on dual cd/dvd drive machines.
That is one problemo I've never had... it always found both cd and dvd drives dvd is +/- read write and cdr ditto. I am backing up the last of my home dir on skronk.. and the cellery is chugging along okay so far ( doing the YOU thing right now.. downloading teh kernal patch and whatever.) On this box the install setup everything so it was just putting in the logon and pwds forr the internet stuff and wheeee off we went. This is also the box that the crossover test is happening later today. ( at least I think he will do it today.) He has a patch the Crossover guys seent him to try w/ the problem that I mentioned yesterday.( It looks like dos stuff, it's ungui-like and so a problem I have a feeling that once he gets 9.2 on his box he will have a fair old time playing w/ all the pretty stuff... Anyway, what he did play around w/ yesterday looks okay to me... but I dun' use no MS software .. ' *Linux* has been bery bery good to me..' -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Donn Washburn
Hey Group:
As a long time SuSE user I have never gotten the DVD to work. It has always failed stating that it could not find the source file lists. Well they have either fixed it or I beat it.
Try it if yours has fails. This required 2 drives one CD and one DVD. (mine is setup - Secondary Master is a CD and Secondary Slave is a DVD) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Those assignments are probably the key. I have a similar arrangement except that my DVDRW as master, with the CDRW as slave, and I was able to install 9.0 and 9.1, straight from the DVD. When I get the free time, hopefully sometime in the afternoon, I'll get round to installing 9.2 as well.
This test was run on 3 machines and did work. Whereas a direct DVD load failed.
Try making the DVD the master and CD the slave and it should work straight from the DVD. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 63 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD 1800 1Gb WinXP/SuSE 9.1 | AMD 2400 160Mb SuSE 8.1 | AMD 2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 AMD 1300 512Mb SuSE 9.0 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62 RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11
Donn Washburn wrote:
Hey Group:
As a long time SuSE user I have never gotten the DVD to work. It has always failed stating that it could not find the source file lists. Well they have either fixed it or I beat it.
Try it if yours has fails. This required 2 drives one CD and one DVD. (mine is setup - Secondary Master is a CD and Secondary Slave is a DVD)
1. Bootup on the DVD and do a "Manual Installation". Answer all questions. 2. Insert the CD#1 in your CD drive and from the Start Installation" menu select "Verify". Here seems to be the key. Note that verify checks the CD and not the DVD. Why? It seems that by default "DEVICE=" your CD and not the DVD. If you cause it to error out the error message shows which devices to check. 3. When the Verify process finishes - hit "Eject" and remove the CD#1 4. Hit OK and off goes the DVD.
This test was run on 3 machines and did work. Whereas a direct DVD load failed.
I booted from the DVD on my laptop (x86_64), got some such problems, so I CTRL-ALT-F2, logged in as root, no symlinks for /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd, I made the symlinks to /dev/hdc, but I stll had problems where it couldn't mount /dev/hda1. I could manually mount and umount hda1. I decided to give it one more try and it all worked. I'm not really sure what got it finally going. BTW the DVD verified OK when I tried it. I shall see what happens on the next box which also has a combo CD/DVD drive. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
Sid Boyce wrote:
Donn Washburn wrote:
Hey Group:
As a long time SuSE user I have never gotten the DVD to work. It has always failed stating that it could not find the source file lists. Well they have either fixed it or I beat it.
Try it if yours has fails. This required 2 drives one CD and one DVD. (mine is setup - Secondary Master is a CD and Secondary Slave is a DVD)
1. Bootup on the DVD and do a "Manual Installation". Answer all questions. 2. Insert the CD#1 in your CD drive and from the Start Installation" menu select "Verify". Here seems to be the key. Note that verify checks the CD and not the DVD. Why? It seems that by default "DEVICE=" your CD and not the DVD. If you cause it to error out the error message shows which devices to check. 3. When the Verify process finishes - hit "Eject" and remove the CD#1 4. Hit OK and off goes the DVD.
This test was run on 3 machines and did work. Whereas a direct DVD load failed.
I booted from the DVD on my laptop (x86_64), got some such problems, so I CTRL-ALT-F2, logged in as root, no symlinks for /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd, I made the symlinks to /dev/hdc, but I stll had problems where it couldn't mount /dev/hda1. I could manually mount and umount hda1. I decided to give it one more try and it all worked. I'm not really sure what got it finally going. BTW the DVD verified OK when I tried it. I shall see what happens on the next box which also has a combo CD/DVD drive. Regards Sid.
I never could use the DVD under SUSE 8.0. It worked with 9.2. Don't have a clue why. Don -- DC Parris http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere."
Don Parris wrote:
Sid Boyce wrote:
Donn Washburn wrote:
Hey Group:
As a long time SuSE user I have never gotten the DVD to work. It has always failed stating that it could not find the source file lists. Well they have either fixed it or I beat it.
Try it if yours has fails. This required 2 drives one CD and one DVD. (mine is setup - Secondary Master is a CD and Secondary Slave is a DVD)
1. Bootup on the DVD and do a "Manual Installation". Answer all questions. 2. Insert the CD#1 in your CD drive and from the Start Installation" menu select "Verify". Here seems to be the key. Note that verify checks the CD and not the DVD. Why? It seems that by default "DEVICE=" your CD and not the DVD. If you cause it to error out the error message shows which devices to check. 3. When the Verify process finishes - hit "Eject" and remove the CD#1 4. Hit OK and off goes the DVD.
This test was run on 3 machines and did work. Whereas a direct DVD load failed.
I booted from the DVD on my laptop (x86_64), got some such problems, so I CTRL-ALT-F2, logged in as root, no symlinks for /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd, I made the symlinks to /dev/hdc, but I stll had problems where it couldn't mount /dev/hda1. I could manually mount and umount hda1. I decided to give it one more try and it all worked. I'm not really sure what got it finally going. BTW the DVD verified OK when I tried it. I shall see what happens on the next box which also has a combo CD/DVD drive. Regards Sid.
I never could use the DVD under SUSE 8.0. It worked with 9.2. Don't have a clue why.
Don
I think I only started using the DVD round about 8.1 or 8.2 and it has always worked except for the 9.0 installation where I had to fall back to installing from CD's, but I could acess the stuff on the DVD once it was up and running. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
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