OpenSUSE OSS 10, install stops between CDs
Hi list, I'm not new to Linux nor to the Suse flavour. Installed it many times without a single real issue but this time... When CD 1 is done and the usual window pops up requesting the successive CD to be inserted I put CD 2 in, hit [OK] and the following error happens: Media: mount failed. Now: - md5sums are OK, - I've changed my CDs several times (they are rw, either Mmore or Maxell), - CDs can be read in other computers, - I've changed the CD drive (which always works fine with first CD). I'm starting to think the problem may be related to the installation program not unmounting CD x/mounting CD x+1. Any clues? Anything I should have tried before contacting the list? <grin> Thanks, -c
Am Freitag 14 Oktober 2005 12:31 schrieb Mello:
Hi list, I'm not new to Linux nor to the Suse flavour. Installed it many times without a single real issue but this time...
When CD 1 is done and the usual window pops up requesting the successive CD to be inserted I put CD 2 in, hit [OK] and the following error happens: Media: mount failed.
Now: - md5sums are OK, - I've changed my CDs several times (they are rw, either Mmore or Maxell), - CDs can be read in other computers, - I've changed the CD drive (which always works fine with first CD).
I'm starting to think the problem may be related to the installation program not unmounting CD x/mounting CD x+1.
Any clues? Anything I should have tried before contacting the list? <grin>
look at console 3 & 4 for error messages and /var/log/YaST2/y2log. -- with kind regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Lasarsch, Subsystems SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg martin.lasarsch@suse.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- simply change to www.suse.de
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:31:08PM +0200, Mello wrote:
Hi list, I'm not new to Linux nor to the Suse flavour. Installed it many times without a single real issue but this time...
When CD 1 is done and the usual window pops up requesting the successive CD to be inserted I put CD 2 in, hit [OK] and the following error happens: Media: mount failed.
Now: - md5sums are OK, - I've changed my CDs several times (they are rw, either Mmore or Maxell), - CDs can be read in other computers, - I've changed the CD drive (which always works fine with first CD).
I'm starting to think the problem may be related to the installation program not unmounting CD x/mounting CD x+1.
Any clues? Anything I should have tried before contacting the list? <grin>
I had a similar thing happen with my 9.3 -> 10.0 upgrade. I have a DVD drive and a CD burner drive. I started the install on the DVD because the read speed is a little faster. It booted from it fine and installed from #1. Finished #1 and asked for #2... put #2 in and it finished from #2 and asked for #3. Put #3 in, and it started giving abort/retry/ignore errors on every file. I aborted and started over. Second time through, same ... until I noticed that when it asked for #3 and I clicked on the EJECT button on the dialog box (first time through I had ejected using the button on the DVD drive instead of the mouse button), it slid the carrier for the *CD burner drive* out instead of the DVD drive that I had started the install with. I put #3 in the CD burner drive and continued, and it finished the install of #3, #4, and #5 all using the CD burner. Somehow the install got confused and switched drives in the middle of the install. I've never seen *that* happen before! Michael -- San Francisco, CA
Hello, Am Freitag, 14. Oktober 2005 12:59 schrieb Michael Nelson: [...]
Second time through, same ... until I noticed that when it asked for #3 and I clicked on the EJECT button on the dialog box (first time through I had ejected using the button on the DVD drive instead of the mouse button), it slid the carrier for the *CD burner drive* out instead of the DVD drive that I had started the install with.
I put #3 in the CD burner drive and continued, and it finished the install of #3, #4, and #5 all using the CD burner.
Somehow the install got confused and switched drives in the middle of the install.
AFAIK, YaST checks *all* CD/DVD drives each time it requests another CD. BTW, that's a good way to avoid this annoying "please change CD" message: while installing CD 1, put CD 2 into the other drive. When installing from CD 2, remove CD 1 from the first drive and replace it with CD 3... (The last time I tested this was on 9.0.)
I've never seen *that* happen before!
It should not happen. If you still have the YaST logs, go to bugzilla.novell.com and enter a bugreport. Also append the y2logs since the YaST maintainers will ask for them otherwise ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz -- Der von Ihnen vielleicht erwartete Input wird zu dem eines verstimmten Mitarbeiters oder eines Crackers der Monate Zeit hat, oder einer Katze, die über die Tastatur läuft in keinerlei Zusammenhang stehen. [php.net manual / security.html]
I have also seen problems similar to this. With my system I could start the install on either drive, but had to complete it with the cdrom drive and not the burner in all cases. I moved the jumpers on the drives and tried again with the reult being it would look for the CD in the burner. The only conclusion I can come up with is that it is looking for the CD in the IDE master and not the slave. Is it possible that the installer epxects to find the CD mounted on the master and not the slave? Regards, Andy Michael Nelson wrote: <snipped>
I have a DVD drive and a CD burner drive. I started the install on the DVD because the read speed is a little faster. It booted from it fine and installed from #1. Finished #1 and asked for #2... put #2 in and it finished from #2 and asked for #3. Put #3 in, and it started giving abort/retry/ignore errors on every file.
I aborted and started over.
Second time through, same ... until I noticed that when it asked for #3 and I clicked on the EJECT button on the dialog box (first time through I had ejected using the button on the DVD drive instead of the mouse button), it slid the carrier for the *CD burner drive* out instead of the DVD drive that I had started the install with.
I put #3 in the CD burner drive and continued, and it finished the install of #3, #4, and #5 all using the CD burner.
Somehow the install got confused and switched drives in the middle of the install. I've never seen *that* happen before!
Michael
I have had a similar problem. Sometimes simply removing and replacing the CD worked for me, but in the end I had to restart the install several times before it finally got through all 5 CDs. On one of my machines the install error led me to replace the cdrom drive, which was indeed bad. Regards, Andy Mello wrote:
Hi list, I'm not new to Linux nor to the Suse flavour. Installed it many times without a single real issue but this time...
When CD 1 is done and the usual window pops up requesting the successive CD to be inserted I put CD 2 in, hit [OK] and the following error happens: Media: mount failed.
Now: - md5sums are OK, - I've changed my CDs several times (they are rw, either Mmore or Maxell), - CDs can be read in other computers, - I've changed the CD drive (which always works fine with first CD).
I'm starting to think the problem may be related to the installation program not unmounting CD x/mounting CD x+1.
Any clues? Anything I should have tried before contacting the list? <grin>
Thanks, -c
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Michael Nelson