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. So, has anyone had any problems installing on a SCSI based system and if so what has been the work around? System consists of the following: 4 matched removable SCSI HDs, only one of which is turned on during the install 1 each DVD writer and reader and 1 each CD writer and reader. All except the DVD writer are SCSI, the DVD writer is IDE and is the device used for the install attempts (I've tried all 4 devices but all fail during the loading of the packages) because it ( the IDE Sony DVD) is by far the fastest device. Below is a typical error I get when trying to perform the install during the package writing phase: "error: /var/adm/YaSTInstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_ 0X00000001/MEDIA/suse/i586/ghostscripts-fonts-other-8.15rc1-29.i586rpm:MD5 digest: BAD Expected (cb29d41081097a3cd4feeda767aeb453) != (e8aa68850260b19cbc0d44f43a330b2d)" This error will repeat with just a different package name for all packages other than the first three packages. Below is a quote from Novell tech service: "After installation of the first packages the access to /mnt/var/ gets lost, resulting in errors like: Could not open logfile '/mnt/var/log/YaST2/y2logRPM' cannot get exclusive lock on /mnt/var/lib/rpm/Packages cannot open Packages database in /mnt/var/lib/rpm Yast got confused by your quite unusual system." I've installed all versions of SuSE Linux, from 7.3 - 9.3 inclusive, on this box before without this problem. Any help on how to get 10 installed greatly appreciated. dave
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:46 am, David Johanson wrote:
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.
So, has anyone had any problems installing on a SCSI based system and if so what has been the work around?
System consists of the following:
4 matched removable SCSI HDs, only one of which is turned on during the install 1 each DVD writer and reader and 1 each CD writer and reader. All except the DVD writer are SCSI, the DVD writer is IDE and is the device used for the install attempts (I've tried all 4 devices but all fail during the loading of the packages) because it ( the IDE Sony DVD) is by far the fastest device.
You don't mention the specifics of your SCSI devices... (vendor, model, etc) but I have installed 10.0 on two scsi systems using Adaptec 29160 controllers. I would guess it is a change in the way the kernel handles your particular scsi devices.
Below is a typical error I get when trying to perform the install during the package writing phase: "error: /var/adm/YaSTInstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_ 0X00000001/MEDIA/suse/i586/ghostscripts-fonts-other-8.15rc1-29.i586rpm:MD5 digest: BAD Expected (cb29d41081097a3cd4feeda767aeb453) != (e8aa68850260b19cbc0d44f43a330b2d)" This error will repeat with just a different package name for all packages other than the first three packages.
Below is a quote from Novell tech service:
"After installation of the first packages the access to /mnt/var/ gets lost, resulting in errors like:
Could not open logfile '/mnt/var/log/YaST2/y2logRPM' cannot get exclusive lock on /mnt/var/lib/rpm/Packages cannot open Packages database in /mnt/var/lib/rpm
Yast got confused by your quite unusual system."
I've installed all versions of SuSE Linux, from 7.3 - 9.3 inclusive, on this box before without this problem. Any help on how to get 10 installed greatly appreciated.
dave
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:46 am, David Johanson wrote:
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.
So, has anyone had any problems installing on a SCSI based system and if so what has been the work around?
System consists of the following:
4 matched removable SCSI HDs, only one of which is turned on during the install 1 each DVD writer and reader and 1 each CD writer and reader. All except the DVD writer are SCSI, the DVD writer is IDE and is the device used for the install attempts (I've tried all 4 devices but all fail during the loading of the packages) because it ( the IDE Sony DVD) is by far the fastest device.
You don't mention the specifics of your SCSI devices... (vendor, model, etc) but I have installed 10.0 on two scsi systems using Adaptec 29160 controllers.
opps! Adaptec 29320A ultra 320
I would guess it is a change in the way the kernel handles your particular scsi devices.
Below is a typical error I get when trying to perform the install during the package writing phase: "error: /var/adm/YaSTInstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_ 0X00000001/MEDIA/suse/i586/ghostscripts-fonts-other-8.15rc1-29.i586rpm:MD5 digest: BAD Expected (cb29d41081097a3cd4feeda767aeb453) != (e8aa68850260b19cbc0d44f43a330b2d)" This error will repeat with just a different package name for all packages other than the first three packages.
Below is a quote from Novell tech service:
"After installation of the first packages the access to /mnt/var/ gets lost, resulting in errors like:
Could not open logfile '/mnt/var/log/YaST2/y2logRPM' cannot get exclusive lock on /mnt/var/lib/rpm/Packages cannot open Packages database in /mnt/var/lib/rpm
Yast got confused by your quite unusual system."
I've installed all versions of SuSE Linux, from 7.3 - 9.3 inclusive, on this box before without this problem. Any help on how to get 10 installed greatly appreciated.
dave
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 12:01 pm, David Johanson wrote:
4 matched removable SCSI HDs, only one of which is turned on during the install 1 each DVD writer and reader and 1 each CD writer and reader. All except the DVD writer are SCSI, the DVD writer is IDE and is the device used for the install attempts (I've tried all 4 devices but all fail during the loading of the packages) because it ( the IDE Sony DVD) is by far the fastest device.
You don't mention the specifics of your SCSI devices... (vendor, model, etc) but I have installed 10.0 on two scsi systems using Adaptec 29160 controllers.
opps!
Adaptec 29320A ultra 320
I assume you've tried the 'safe' install? Just an option to try.
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 12:01 pm, David Johanson wrote:
4 matched removable SCSI HDs, only one of which is turned on during the install 1 each DVD writer and reader and 1 each CD writer and reader. All except the DVD writer are SCSI, the DVD writer is IDE and is the device used for the install attempts (I've tried all 4 devices but all fail during the loading of the packages) because it ( the IDE Sony DVD) is by far the fastest device.
You don't mention the specifics of your SCSI devices... (vendor, model, etc) but I have installed 10.0 on two scsi systems using Adaptec 29160 controllers.
opps!
Adaptec 29320A ultra 320
I assume you've tried the 'safe' install? Just an option to try.
Every combination available has been tried, including the ACIP off version. All result in exactly the same failure point, that is, after loading 3-4 packages, YaST can't find the DVD/CD drive containing the install media, and the DVD drive is an IDE device. In other words, it's an IDE, NOT SCSI problem! It's a ridiculous error and should be fixed by Novell rather than saying they don't support SCSI.. Prior to saying they won't support me, I had to go through checking out the RAM, each HD, and so forth, even though the box has three other OSs running perfectly, namely win2K, SuSE 9.3, and Mepis 3.3 of which I had identified at the start of the tech support request
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 10:45 am, David Johanson wrote:
Every combination available has been tried, including the ACIP off version. All result in exactly the same failure point, that is, after loading 3-4 packages, YaST can't find the DVD/CD drive containing the install media, and the DVD drive is an IDE device. In other words, it's an IDE, NOT SCSI problem! It's a ridiculous error and should be fixed by Novell rather than saying they don't support SCSI.. Prior to saying they won't support me, I had to go through checking out the RAM, each HD, and so forth, even though the box has three other OSs running perfectly, namely win2K, SuSE 9.3, and Mepis 3.3 of which I had identified at the start of the tech support request David,
Any chance of a network install? Put the installation media in a directory on another machine and use NFS? Doesn't address the issues but might be a workaround. (I have not used 10, so this may not work. It was a possibility in 9.3 though.) -- Don
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:01 -0700, Don Raboud wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 10:45 am, David Johanson wrote:
Every combination available has been tried, including the ACIP off version. All result in exactly the same failure point, that is, after loading 3-4 packages, YaST can't find the DVD/CD drive containing the install media, and the DVD drive is an IDE device. In other words, it's an IDE, NOT SCSI problem! It's a ridiculous error and should be fixed by Novell rather than saying they don't support SCSI.. Prior to saying they won't support me, I had to go through checking out the RAM, each HD, and so forth, even though the box has three other OSs running perfectly, namely win2K, SuSE 9.3, and Mepis 3.3 of which I had identified at the start of the tech support request David,
Any chance of a network install? Put the installation media in a directory on another machine and use NFS? Doesn't address the issues but might be a workaround.
(I have not used 10, so this may not work. It was a possibility in 9.3 though.) -- Don
I used network install for my laptop using ftp and it worked fine. I too was having DVD/CD problems (it is my drive in my case). -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 1:41 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:01 -0700, Don Raboud wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 10:45 am, David Johanson wrote:
Every combination available has been tried, including the ACIP off version. All result in exactly the same failure point, that is, after loading 3-4 packages, YaST can't find the DVD/CD drive containing the install media, and the DVD drive is an IDE device. In other words, it's an IDE, NOT SCSI problem! It's a ridiculous error and should be fixed by Novell rather than saying they don't support SCSI.. Prior to saying they won't support me, I had to go through checking out the RAM, each HD, and so forth, even though the box has three other OSs running perfectly, namely win2K, SuSE 9.3, and Mepis 3.3 of which I had identified at the start of the tech support request
David,
Any chance of a network install? Put the installation media in a directory on another machine and use NFS? Doesn't address the issues but might be a workaround.
(I have not used 10, so this may not work. It was a possibility in 9.3 though.) -- Don
I used network install for my laptop using ftp and it worked fine. I too was having DVD/CD problems (it is my drive in my case).
-- Ken Schneider
Must be my day for recommending CD/DVD drive firmware updates via www.CDFreaks.com. Third time today. They have both manufacturer and third-party CD/DVD drive firmwares listed with links to go get them. Usual cautions about flashing firmwares of course. I use them to get information on what changes are in the firmwares, what they are supposed to fix, etc. And in the case of third-party firmwares, what testing has been done, what success or failures have been reported, etc. Seems like you've covered almost everything else but I didn't see any mention of firmwares on those 4 CD/DVD devices. Stan
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 1:41 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:01 -0700, Don Raboud wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 10:45 am, David Johanson wrote:
Every combination available has been tried, including the ACIP off version. All result in exactly the same failure point, that is, after loading 3-4 packages, YaST can't find the DVD/CD drive containing the install media, and the DVD drive is an IDE device. In other words, it's an IDE, NOT SCSI problem! It's a ridiculous error and should be fixed by Novell rather than saying they don't support SCSI.. Prior to saying they won't support me, I had to go through checking out the RAM, each HD, and so forth, even though the box has three other OSs running perfectly, namely win2K, SuSE 9.3, and Mepis 3.3 of which I had identified at the start of the tech support request
David,
Any chance of a network install? Put the installation media in a directory on another machine and use NFS? Doesn't address the issues but might be a workaround.
(I have not used 10, so this may not work. It was a possibility in 9.3 though.) -- Don
I used network install for my laptop using ftp and it worked fine. I too was having DVD/CD problems (it is my drive in my case).
-- Ken Schneider
Must be my day for recommending CD/DVD drive firmware updates via www.CDFreaks.com. Third time today. They have both manufacturer and third-party CD/DVD drive firmwares listed with links to go get them. Usual cautions about flashing firmwares of course. I use them to get information on what changes are in the firmwares, what they are supposed to fix, etc. And in the case of third-party firmwares, what testing has been done, what success or failures have been reported, etc.
Seems like you've covered almost everything else but I didn't see any mention of firmwares on those 4 CD/DVD devices.
Stan
David Several things come to mind to try, I have saw several systems with a bad memory chip that would only show up when the memory filled up enough on the install to fail, try running memtest overnight to check this. You all so don't mention if you have used the media to install in another system I have saw several bad media in the past from SuSE.. One other drastic check is to remove all extra cards in the MB and install with just a IDE hard drive and see if all goes well then add cards and hard drives one by one, then with everything running do an upgrade and have it install onto the SCSI drives -- Robert Cunningham Sr. Physics Laboratory Coordinator /RSO Kettering University Flint, Michigan 48504 (810) 762-7935 rcunnig@kettering.edu
Robert Cunningham wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 1:41 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:01 -0700, Don Raboud wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 10:45 am, David Johanson wrote:
Every combination available has been tried, including the ACIP off version. All result in exactly the same failure point, that is, after loading 3-4 packages, YaST can't find the DVD/CD drive containing the install media, and the DVD drive is an IDE device. In other words, it's an IDE, NOT SCSI problem! It's a ridiculous error and should be fixed by Novell rather than saying they don't support SCSI.. Prior to saying they won't support me, I had to go through checking out the RAM, each HD, and so forth, even though the box has three other OSs running perfectly, namely win2K, SuSE 9.3, and Mepis 3.3 of which I had identified at the start of the tech support request
David,
Any chance of a network install? Put the installation media in a directory on another machine and use NFS? Doesn't address the issues but might be a workaround.
(I have not used 10, so this may not work. It was a possibility in 9.3 though.) -- Don
I used network install for my laptop using ftp and it worked fine. I too was having DVD/CD problems (it is my drive in my case).
-- Ken Schneider
Must be my day for recommending CD/DVD drive firmware updates via www.CDFreaks.com. Third time today. They have both manufacturer and third-party CD/DVD drive firmwares listed with links to go get them. Usual cautions about flashing firmwares of course. I use them to get information on what changes are in the firmwares, what they are supposed to fix, etc. And in the case of third-party firmwares, what testing has been done, what success or failures have been reported, etc.
Seems like you've covered almost everything else but I didn't see any mention of firmwares on those 4 CD/DVD devices.
Stan
David
Several things come to mind to try, I have saw several systems with a bad memory chip that would only show up when the memory filled up enough on the install to fail, try running memtest overnight to check this. You all so don't mention if you have used the media to install in another system I have saw several bad media in the past from SuSE.. One other drastic check is to remove all extra cards in the MB and install with just a IDE hard drive and see if all goes well then add cards and hard drives one by one, then with everything running do an upgrade and have it install onto the SCSI drives
I've run the memory check thing and it all went according to Hoyle, although I only ran it for a bit over an hour; I can always run it overnight but I doubt that this is the problem as I can use these drives, and have, to install 9.3 on the same system (last week) and all went well. I rather doubt that the install of 9.3 is less demanding, system-wise, than is 10.0. However, always willing to try the long term check to see what happens although Novell tech support considered the test I performed as adequate. I have only attempted to install SuSE10 on this box but I have tried to work with two different commercial releases of SuSE 10, one from Novell a d the other from Linux Magazine, Jan 2006, issue #62 as well as using the CDs from the boxed set from Novell. ALL gave the exact same results. If I have to go to the extreme measure you mention it simply means that SuSE 10 is not ready for prime time IMNSHO; I don't have to do that for any of a half dozen other Linux distros I either have installed (currently SuSE 9.3 and Mepis 3.3) or the others that I have removed while trying the various approached to Linux. I appreciate the suggestion, but it falls into the too hard category and, to my way of thinking, way too much to ask to get a distro installed. ;-) dave
Robert Cunningham wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 1:41 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:01 -0700, Don Raboud wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 10:45 am, David Johanson wrote:
Every combination available has been tried, including the ACIP off version. All result in exactly the same failure point, that is, after loading 3-4 packages, YaST can't find the DVD/CD drive containing the install media, and the DVD drive is an IDE device. In other words, it's an IDE, NOT SCSI problem! It's a ridiculous error and should be fixed by Novell rather than saying they don't support SCSI.. Prior to saying they won't support me, I had to go through checking out the RAM, each HD, and so forth, even though the box has three other OSs running perfectly, namely win2K, SuSE 9.3, and Mepis 3.3 of which I had identified at the start of the tech support request
David,
Any chance of a network install? Put the installation media in a directory on another machine and use NFS? Doesn't address the issues but might be a workaround.
(I have not used 10, so this may not work. It was a possibility in 9.3 though.) -- Don
I used network install for my laptop using ftp and it worked fine. I too was having DVD/CD problems (it is my drive in my case).
-- Ken Schneider
Must be my day for recommending CD/DVD drive firmware updates via www.CDFreaks.com. Third time today. They have both manufacturer and third-party CD/DVD drive firmwares listed with links to go get them. Usual cautions about flashing firmwares of course. I use them to get information on what changes are in the firmwares, what they are supposed to fix, etc. And in the case of third-party firmwares, what testing has been done, what success or failures have been reported, etc.
Seems like you've covered almost everything else but I didn't see any mention of firmwares on those 4 CD/DVD devices.
Stan
David
Several things come to mind to try, I have saw several systems with a bad memory chip that would only show up when the memory filled up enough on the install to fail, try running memtest overnight to check this.
<snip> O.K., ran memtest for 18 hours; no problems with the ram according to the test. dave
Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 1:41 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:01 -0700, Don Raboud wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 10:45 am, David Johanson wrote:
Every combination available has been tried, including the ACIP off version. All result in exactly the same failure point, that is, after loading 3-4 packages, YaST can't find the DVD/CD drive containing the install media, and the DVD drive is an IDE device. In other words, it's an IDE, NOT SCSI problem! It's a ridiculous error and should be fixed by Novell rather than saying they don't support SCSI.. Prior to saying they won't support me, I had to go through checking out the RAM, each HD, and so forth, even though the box has three other OSs running perfectly, namely win2K, SuSE 9.3, and Mepis 3.3 of which I had identified at the start of the tech support request
David,
Any chance of a network install? Put the installation media in a directory on another machine and use NFS? Doesn't address the issues but might be a workaround.
(I have not used 10, so this may not work. It was a possibility in 9.3 though.) -- Don
I used network install for my laptop using ftp and it worked fine. I too was having DVD/CD problems (it is my drive in my case).
-- Ken Schneider
Must be my day for recommending CD/DVD drive firmware updates via www.CDFreaks.com. Third time today. They have both manufacturer and third-party CD/DVD drive firmwares listed with links to go get them. Usual cautions about flashing firmwares of course. I use them to get information on what changes are in the firmwares, what they are supposed to fix, etc. And in the case of third-party firmwares, what testing has been done, what success or failures have been reported, etc.
Seems like you've covered almost everything else but I didn't see any mention of firmwares on those 4 CD/DVD devices.
Stan
Thanks for the suggestion! I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't think of this and a bit frustrated that SuSE support did not so suggest. I did jump out and download the latest firmware upgrade, moving my drive from 1.0e to 2.1a. Even though the description of the firmware upgrade included vastly improved performance when reading from dual layered disks, it made no difference. I'm not surprised however as attempting to install using the single layer CDs fails on both CD-ROM drives. The Plextor Plexwriter is up to date with it's firmware.
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 3:41 pm, David Johanson wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion!
I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't think of this and a bit frustrated that SuSE support did not so suggest. I did jump out and download the latest firmware upgrade, moving my drive from 1.0e to 2.1a. Even though the description of the firmware upgrade included vastly improved performance when reading from dual layered disks, it made no difference. I'm not surprised however as attempting to install using the single layer CDs fails on both CD-ROM drives. The Plextor Plexwriter is up to date with it's firmware.
Well, one more troubleshooting step out of the way... You've done the manual, text mode install and the FailSafe option. Did you go through the list of installed driver modules to verify you need all of them? Wondering if maybe the wrong one is getting loaded or if you need to load a different one from a driver disk because SUSE 10.0 is loading a newer, broken or different driver than 9.3 or the other OSes you have installed. Stan
Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 3:41 pm, David Johanson wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion!
I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't think of this and a bit frustrated that SuSE support did not so suggest. I did jump out and download the latest firmware upgrade, moving my drive from 1.0e to 2.1a. Even though the description of the firmware upgrade included vastly improved performance when reading from dual layered disks, it made no difference. I'm not surprised however as attempting to install using the single layer CDs fails on both CD-ROM drives. The Plextor Plexwriter is up to date with it's firmware.
Well, one more troubleshooting step out of the way...
You've done the manual, text mode install and the FailSafe option. Did you go through the list of installed driver modules to verify you need all of them? Wondering if maybe the wrong one is getting loaded or if you need to load a different one from a driver disk because SUSE 10.0 is loading a newer, broken or different driver than 9.3 or the other OSes you have installed.
Stan
And the no-ACIP option as well. As for the list of installed driver modules, I either don't understand what I should do or flat out just don't know how to do it; I think it's both. ;-( Does this require the text approach, I'm thinking it may, which is O.K. by me, but what would I omit? Since the install loads off the DVD, and I know it does because it presents the blue set up screen most of the time with a random christmassy screen with sliding penguins just to break the monotony, plus I watch the drive light blinking as all the install text scrolls down the screen, and then the install reads the DVD to set up the default package configuration followed by the DVD formatting the hard drive and the install from the DVD of the first 3-4 programs prior to "YaST getting lost", I'm not sure as to how the wrong driver module would be loaded. This is all new territory to me so I'm more than ready to learn, so if you are inclined to lead further I'm ready to try just about anything short of taking the box apart to do an install. Thanks for the suggestions, dave
Every combination available has been tried, including the ACIP off version. All result in exactly the same failure point, that is, after loading 3-4 packages, YaST can't find the DVD/CD drive containing the install media, and the DVD drive is an IDE device. In other words, it's an IDE, NOT SCSI problem! It's a ridiculous error and should be fixed by Novell rather than saying they don't support SCSI.. Prior to saying they won't support me, I had to go through checking out the RAM, each HD, and so forth, even though the box has three other OSs running perfectly, namely win2K, SuSE 9.3, and Mepis 3.3 of which I had identified at the start of the tech support request
hi, I think I have come across a similar problem to yours , I just changed the filesystem ,then everything is OK. At first , I wanted to use ext3 filesystem, it fails .Then I restarted and chose ReiserFS , then installed completely. I am not sure if this will work for you, maybe you can have a try. Regards lof
lof wrote:
Every combination available has been tried, including the ACIP off version. All result in exactly the same failure point, that is, after loading 3-4 packages, YaST can't find the DVD/CD drive containing the install media, and the DVD drive is an IDE device. In other words, it's an IDE, NOT SCSI problem! It's a ridiculous error and should be fixed by Novell rather than saying they don't support SCSI.. Prior to saying they won't support me, I had to go through checking out the RAM, each HD, and so forth, even though the box has three other OSs running perfectly, namely win2K, SuSE 9.3, and Mepis 3.3 of which I had identified at the start of the tech support request
hi, I think I have come across a similar problem to yours , I just changed the filesystem ,then everything is OK. At first , I wanted to use ext3 filesystem, it fails .Then I restarted and chose ReiserFS , then installed completely. I am not sure if this will work for you, maybe you can have a try.
Regards lof
Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried every combination of file systems, including multiple partition schemes; all failed. Novell suggested it was a problem with the partitioning and file system selection saying use just the default. That didn't work nor does any other combination. dave
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 12:35 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 12:01 pm, David Johanson wrote:
4 matched removable SCSI HDs, only one of which is turned on during the install 1 each DVD writer and reader and 1 each CD writer and reader. All except the DVD writer are SCSI, the DVD writer is IDE and is the device used for the install attempts (I've tried all 4 devices but all fail during the loading of the packages) because it ( the IDE Sony DVD) is by far the fastest device.
You don't mention the specifics of your SCSI devices... (vendor, model, etc) but I have installed 10.0 on two scsi systems using Adaptec 29160 controllers.
opps!
Adaptec 29320A ultra 320
I assume you've tried the 'safe' install? Just an option to try.
Perhaps another obvious suggestion, but the few times I've had trouble installing SuSE, it's been a YAST problem, and the text install option worked just fine - not quite as pretty though! Regis Matejcik
Regis Matejcik wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 12:35 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 12:01 pm, David Johanson wrote:
4 matched removable SCSI HDs, only one of which is turned on during the install 1 each DVD writer and reader and 1 each CD writer and reader. All except the DVD writer are SCSI, the DVD writer is IDE and is the device used for the install attempts (I've tried all 4 devices but all fail during the loading of the packages) because it ( the IDE Sony DVD) is by far the fastest device.
You don't mention the specifics of your SCSI devices... (vendor, model, etc) but I have installed 10.0 on two scsi systems using Adaptec 29160 controllers.
opps!
Adaptec 29320A ultra 320
I assume you've tried the 'safe' install? Just an option to try.
Perhaps another obvious suggestion, but the few times I've had trouble installing SuSE, it's been a YAST problem, and the text install option worked just fine - not quite as pretty though!
Regis Matejcik
I've gone the text route also, several times just to be sure. It takes you, textually, to the same point when the gui kicks in for selecting mouse, language, time zone, and then HD formatting and package selection. Saying O.K. results in HD formatting, then the start of package installation; 3-4 install fine and then YaST somehow gets "lost." dave
David Johanson wrote:
I've gone the text route also, several times just to be sure. It takes you, textually, to the same point when the gui kicks in for selecting mouse, language, time zone, and then HD formatting and package selection. Saying O.K. results in HD formatting, then the start of package installation; 3-4 install fine and then YaST somehow gets "lost."
dave
Try another DVD drive and/or reverify your DVD hardware configuration? Mark
Mark Hounschell wrote:
David Johanson wrote:
I've gone the text route also, several times just to be sure. It takes you, textually, to the same point when the gui kicks in for selecting mouse, language, time zone, and then HD formatting and package selection. Saying O.K. results in HD formatting, then the start of package installation; 3-4 install fine and then YaST somehow gets "lost."
dave
Try another DVD drive and/or reverify your DVD hardware configuration?
Mark
As mentioned, I've tried all 4 drives; all 4 have the same failure. Not sure what you have in mind with the second suggestion, but all the drives will and do install everything I've thrown at them save for SuSE 10. I've even tried two different DVDs, one from Novell and the other from Linux Magazine, Jan 2006 issue # 62. dave
David Johanson wrote:
Try another DVD drive and/or reverify your DVD hardware configuration?
Mark
As mentioned, I've tried all 4 drives; all 4 have the same failure. Not sure what you have in mind with the second suggestion, but all the drives will and do install everything I've thrown at them save for SuSE 10. I've even tried two different DVDs, one from Novell and the other from Linux Magazine, Jan 2006 issue # 62.
dave
I mean specifically the single IDE DVD drive you are using and the cabling and jumpering configuration of it to your MB. You only mention a single DVD drive unless I missed something (it's possible). Have you tried another one and/or verified it is properly configured? ie, if master, it is on the end of the cable etc... Mark
David Johanson wrote:
Regis Matejcik wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 12:35 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 12:01 pm, David Johanson wrote:
4 matched removable SCSI HDs, only one of which is turned on during the install 1 each DVD writer and reader and 1 each CD writer and reader. All except the DVD writer are SCSI, the DVD writer is IDE and is the device used for the install attempts (I've tried all 4 devices but all fail during the loading of the packages) because it ( the IDE Sony DVD) is by far the fastest device.
You don't mention the specifics of your SCSI devices... (vendor, model, etc) but I have installed 10.0 on two scsi systems using Adaptec 29160 controllers.
opps!
Adaptec 29320A ultra 320
I assume you've tried the 'safe' install? Just an option to try.
Perhaps another obvious suggestion, but the few times I've had trouble installing SuSE, it's been a YAST problem, and the text install option worked just fine - not quite as pretty though!
Regis Matejcik
I've gone the text route also, several times just to be sure. It takes you, textually, to the same point when the gui kicks in for selecting mouse, language, time zone, and then HD formatting and package selection. Saying O.K. results in HD formatting, then the start of package installation; 3-4 install fine and then YaST somehow gets "lost."
dave
Dave, Do you that machine networked? If so, you could try a NFS/FTP/HTTP install with the sources on networked machine with the 'Instalation Server' yast module... Just a thought... -- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/ They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither one of them.
Rui Santos wrote:
David Johanson wrote:
Regis Matejcik wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 12:35 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 12:01 pm, David Johanson wrote:
> 4 matched removable SCSI HDs, only one of which is turned on > during the > install > 1 each DVD writer and reader and 1 each CD writer and reader. > All except > the DVD writer are SCSI, the DVD writer is IDE and is the device > used > for the install attempts (I've tried all 4 devices but all fail > during > the loading of the packages) because it ( the IDE Sony DVD) is > by far > the fastest device. > >
You don't mention the specifics of your SCSI devices... (vendor, model, etc) but I have installed 10.0 on two scsi systems using Adaptec 29160 controllers.
opps!
Adaptec 29320A ultra 320
I assume you've tried the 'safe' install? Just an option to try.
Perhaps another obvious suggestion, but the few times I've had trouble installing SuSE, it's been a YAST problem, and the text install option worked just fine - not quite as pretty though!
Regis Matejcik
I've gone the text route also, several times just to be sure. It takes you, textually, to the same point when the gui kicks in for selecting mouse, language, time zone, and then HD formatting and package selection. Saying O.K. results in HD formatting, then the start of package installation; 3-4 install fine and then YaST somehow gets "lost."
dave
Dave,
Do you that machine networked? If so, you could try a NFS/FTP/HTTP install with the sources on networked machine with the 'Instalation Server' yast module... Just a thought...
Alas, it is not networked. ;-( dave
David Johanson wrote:
Rui Santos wrote:
David Johanson wrote:
Regis Matejcik wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 12:35 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 12:01 pm, David Johanson wrote:
>> 4 matched removable SCSI HDs, only one of which is turned on >> during the >> install >> 1 each DVD writer and reader and 1 each CD writer and reader. >> All except >> the DVD writer are SCSI, the DVD writer is IDE and is the >> device used >> for the install attempts (I've tried all 4 devices but all fail >> during >> the loading of the packages) because it ( the IDE Sony DVD) is >> by far >> the fastest device. >> >> > > > > You don't mention the specifics of your SCSI devices... > (vendor, model, > etc) but I have installed 10.0 on two scsi systems using > Adaptec 29160 > controllers. > >
opps!
Adaptec 29320A ultra 320
I assume you've tried the 'safe' install? Just an option to try.
Perhaps another obvious suggestion, but the few times I've had trouble installing SuSE, it's been a YAST problem, and the text install option worked just fine - not quite as pretty though!
Regis Matejcik
I've gone the text route also, several times just to be sure. It takes you, textually, to the same point when the gui kicks in for selecting mouse, language, time zone, and then HD formatting and package selection. Saying O.K. results in HD formatting, then the start of package installation; 3-4 install fine and then YaST somehow gets "lost."
dave
Dave,
Do you that machine networked? If so, you could try a NFS/FTP/HTTP install with the sources on networked machine with the 'Instalation Server' yast module... Just a thought...
Alas, it is not networked. ;-(
dave
Can you copy it to harddrive and make a hardrive source install? -- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/ They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither one of them.
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