[opensuse] Upgrade 10.2 to 10.3 failure
Hi, I'm having a problem upgrading 10.2 to 10.3. I have downloaded the DVD and checked the md5sum. I tried upgrading by adding the iso as a repository and the update site, and then running an update. This is how I did the upgrade from 10.2 to 10.2. This failed as it was impossible to resolve all the conflicts. While trying to resolve them all, the system became unusable. So, I tried to boot from the DVD and repair the install. The install from the DVD firstly wouldn't recognise one of the video card (an ati) or the screen (19" widescreen), so it dropped back to text mode. The install then failed, and didn't provide any explanation. It just repeatedly dropped back to yast at the "Start Installation or upgrade" menu. So, I saved the essential bits of the configurations and did a clean install of 10.2 (with reformatting the partitions) with a minimal system. This worked fine. I have updated 10.2 to the latest versions of everything and am now trying to upgrade as explained here http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux. It's failing. When I try to run any of Software management, Update or Online update, yast2 complains that it can't read the package files from the cache directory and disables the 10.3 repositories. Does anyone know how I can complete this upgrade, or do I have to stay at 10.2 for ever! Thanks David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Administrator schreef:
Hi,
I'm having a problem upgrading 10.2 to 10.3. I have downloaded the DVD and checked the md5sum. I tried upgrading by adding the iso as a repository and the update site, and then running an update. This is how I did the upgrade from 10.2 to 10.2. This failed as it was impossible to resolve all the conflicts. While trying to resolve them all, the system became unusable.
So, I tried to boot from the DVD and repair the install. The install from the DVD firstly wouldn't recognise one of the video card (an ati) or the screen (19" widescreen), so it dropped back to text mode. The install then failed, and didn't provide any explanation. It just repeatedly dropped back to yast at the "Start Installation or upgrade" menu.
So, I saved the essential bits of the configurations and did a clean install of 10.2 (with reformatting the partitions) with a minimal system. This worked fine. I have updated 10.2 to the latest versions of everything and am now trying to upgrade as explained here http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux. It's failing. When I try to run any of Software management, Update or Online update, yast2 complains that it can't read the package files from the cache directory and disables the 10.3 repositories.
Does anyone know how I can complete this upgrade, or do I have to stay at 10.2 for ever!
Thanks David
You should only use the DVD, *or*, (not both at the same time) the online-install sources. If DVD used, add update, and install sources afterwards, and update that way. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
So, I saved the essential bits of the configurations and did a clean install of 10.2 (with reformatting the partitions) with a minimal system. This worked fine. I have updated 10.2 to the latest versions of everything and am now trying to upgrade as explained here http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux. It's failing. When I try to run any of Software management, Update or Online update, yast2 complains that it can't read the package files from the cache directory and disables the 10.3 repositories. You should only use the DVD, *or*, (not both at the same time) the online-install sources. If DVD used, add update, and install sources afterwards, and update that way.
I've tried that (I've tried all the combinations I can think of DVD, online sources and update sources). Whichever of the 10.3 distribution repositories / DVD I have in the installation source list gets kicked out by yast when I try to use it. The 10.3 update source (which is YUM) doesn't. David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Administrator schreef:
So, I saved the essential bits of the configurations and
did a clean
install of 10.2 (with reformatting the partitions) with a minimal system. This worked fine. I have updated 10.2 to the
latest versions
of everything and am now trying to upgrade as explained here http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux. It's failing.
When I try
to run any of Software management, Update or Online update, yast2 complains that it can't read the package files from the cache directory and disables the 10.3 repositories.
You should only use the DVD, *or*, (not both at the same time) the online-install sources. If DVD used, add update, and install sources afterwards, and update that way.
I've tried that (I've tried all the combinations I can think of DVD, online sources and update sources). Whichever of the 10.3 distribution repositories / DVD I have in the installation source list gets kicked out by yast when I try to use it. The 10.3 update source (which is YUM) doesn't.
David
You can allways try a new install, and mount the old /home afterwards, or clone your home for the new install, and throw away the old 10.2 if you don't want it anymore.. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
So, I saved the essential bits of the configurations and
did a clean
install of 10.2 (with reformatting the partitions) with a minimal system. This worked fine. I have updated 10.2 to the
latest versions
of everything and am now trying to upgrade as explained here http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux. It's failing.
When I try
to run any of Software management, Update or Online update, yast2 complains that it can't read the package files from the cache directory and disables the 10.3 repositories.
You should only use the DVD, *or*, (not both at the same time) the online-install sources. If DVD used, add update, and install sources afterwards, and update that way.
I've tried that (I've tried all the combinations I can think of DVD, online sources and update sources). Whichever of the 10.3 distribution repositories / DVD I have in the installation source list gets kicked out by yast when I try to use it. The 10.3 update source (which is YUM) doesn't.
David
You can always try a new install, and mount the old /home afterwards, or clone your home for the new install, and throw away the old 10.2 if you don't want it anymore..
I've done that as well. the /home is on a separate partition which I don't reformat when doing an install. Unfortunately 10.3 won't install and it doesn't tell me why it's not installing. 10.2 installs without problems. David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Administrator schreef:
So, I saved the essential bits of the configurations and
did a clean
install of 10.2 (with reformatting the partitions) with a minimal system. This worked fine. I have updated 10.2 to the
latest versions
of everything and am now trying to upgrade as explained here http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux. It's failing.
When I try
to run any of Software management, Update or Online update, yast2 complains that it can't read the package files from the cache directory and disables the 10.3 repositories.
You should only use the DVD, *or*, (not both at the same time) the online-install sources. If DVD used, add update, and install sources afterwards,
and update
that way.
I've tried that (I've tried all the combinations I can
think of DVD,
online sources and update sources). Whichever of the 10.3 distribution repositories / DVD I have in the installation
source list
gets kicked out by yast when I try to use it. The 10.3
update source (which is YUM) doesn't.
David
You can always try a new install, and mount the old /home afterwards, or clone your home for the new install, and throw away the old 10.2 if you don't want it anymore..
I've done that as well. the /home is on a separate partition which I don't reformat when doing an install. Unfortunately 10.3 won't install and it doesn't tell me why it's not installing. 10.2 installs without problems.
David
Did you do the media check at start? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
You can always try a new install, and mount the old /home afterwards, or clone your home for the new install, and throw away the old 10.2 if you don't want it anymore..
I've done that as well. the /home is on a separate partition which I don't reformat when doing an install. Unfortunately 10.3 won't install and it doesn't tell me why it's not installing. 10.2 installs without problems.
David
Did you do the media check at start?
Media checks OK. It does the same thing with the mini-install (what used to be network install). David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Administrator schreef:
You can always try a new install, and mount the old /home
afterwards,
or clone your home for the new install, and throw away the
old 10.2
if you don't want it anymore..
I've done that as well. the /home is on a separate
partition which I
don't reformat when doing an install. Unfortunately 10.3 won't install and it doesn't tell me why it's not installing.
10.2 installs without problems.
David
Did you do the media check at start?
Media checks OK.
It does the same thing with the mini-install (what used to be network install).
David
You say you used reiser. What about ext3? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Monkey 9 wrote:
You say you used reiser. What about ext3?
Surely reiser isn't the problem - I've been using nothing but reiser for some years - and it's still the default filesystem in suse enterprise... Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 16 February 2008 11:34:34 am Joe Sloan wrote:
Monkey 9 wrote:
You say you used reiser. What about ext3?
Surely reiser isn't the problem - I've been using nothing but reiser for some years - and it's still the default filesystem in suse enterprise...
I've read that it kills your spouse's hard drive... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Kai Ponte wrote:
On Saturday 16 February 2008 11:34:34 am Joe Sloan wrote:
Monkey 9 wrote:
You say you used reiser. What about ext3? Surely reiser isn't the problem - I've been using nothing but reiser for some years - and it's still the default filesystem in suse enterprise...
I've read that it kills your spouse's hard drive...
That's hearsay - strike that statement from the records. The jury is instructed to disregard Herr Ponte's remark. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Joe Sloan wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote:
On Saturday 16 February 2008 11:34:34 am Joe Sloan wrote:
Monkey 9 wrote:
You say you used reiser. What about ext3?
Surely reiser isn't the problem - I've been using nothing but reiser for some years - and it's still the default filesystem in suse enterprise...
I've read that it kills your spouse's hard drive...
That's hearsay - strike that statement from the records. The jury is instructed to disregard Herr Ponte's remark.
Joe
Not to mention spousal privilege. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
You can always try a new install, and mount the old /home
afterwards,
or clone your home for the new install, and throw away the
old 10.2
if you don't want it anymore..
I've done that as well. the /home is on a separate
partition which I
don't reformat when doing an install. Unfortunately 10.3 won't install and it doesn't tell me why it's not installing.
10.2 installs without problems.
David
Did you do the media check at start?
Media checks OK.
It does the same thing with the mini-install (what used to be network install).
David
You say you used reiser. What about ext3?
With 10.3 it doesn't even get that far. I'll try it with 10.2 & the upgrade ... I'm getting a lot of practice installing an old version ;-) David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Administrator schreef:
You can always try a new install, and mount the old /home
afterwards,
or clone your home for the new install, and throw away the
old 10.2
if you don't want it anymore..
I've done that as well. the /home is on a separate
partition which I
don't reformat when doing an install. Unfortunately 10.3 won't install and it doesn't tell me why it's not installing.
10.2 installs without problems.
David
Did you do the media check at start?
Media checks OK.
It does the same thing with the mini-install (what used to
be network
install).
David
You say you used reiser. What about ext3?
With 10.3 it doesn't even get that far. I'll try it with 10.2 & the upgrade ... I'm getting a lot of practice installing an old version ;-)
David
Exactly how far do you come? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
With 10.3 it doesn't even get that far. I'll try it with 10.2 & the upgrade ... I'm getting a lot of practice installing an old version ;-)
David
Exactly how far do you come?
It doesn't even get to the start of the install. It reports a non-specific failure and loops back to the menu, on Start installation or upgrade. Selecting this produces exactly the same result. There are no other dialogues or menus which appear before the Failure is reported. David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
As a matter of interest, what are your views on the relative strengths / weaknesses / best uses of ext3 & resiserFS? David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Administrator wrote:
As a matter of interest, what are your views on the relative strengths / weaknesses / best uses of ext3 & resiserFS?
In all the performance measurements I've done, reiser is fast and solid, while ext3 has some performance issues. The well known strengths of reiser are in dealing with huge numbers of files, as in for example a very busy smtp server. The official view seems to be that since Hans Reiser is under a cloud of suspicion for the murder of his wife, the long term roadmap is in doubt, while ext3. with all its problems, is enthusiastically supported by most vendors. Even though ext3 has become the default fs in opensuse, the enterprise version of suse still has reiser as the default fs. Regardless, I always install on reiser. In the long run, ext4 is being worked on, and many feel that is a logical successor, but some kernel developers have hinted that something like oracle's ocfs2, or btrfs, may actually become the default file system at some point. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Administrator schreef:
As a matter of interest, what are your views on the relative strengths / weaknesses / best uses of ext3 & resiserFS?
David
Well, i used reiser to, for years.. But now opensuse supports ext3.. (reisers wife died under mysterious circumstances, or whatever..) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Monkey 9 wrote:
Administrator schreef:
As a matter of interest, what are your views on the relative strengths / weaknesses / best uses of ext3 & resiserFS?
David
Well, i used reiser to, for years.. But now opensuse supports ext3..
And they also support reiser. (reisers wife died under mysterious
circumstances, or whatever..)
True. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-02-16 at 21:40 +0100, Monkey 9 wrote:
Administrator schreef:
As a matter of interest, what are your views on the relative strengths / weaknesses / best uses of ext3 & resiserFS?
Well, i used reiser to, for years.. But now opensuse supports ext3.. (reisers wife died under mysterious circumstances, or whatever..)
Common, that is not the reason. The decision to push ext 3 as the default choice was published before Mr Reiser legal problems were known. The real problem is that there is no upgrade path to the next reiserfs, you have to reformat, plus some other technicalities; see here: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-09/msg00542.html Please remember that reiserfs is supported by opensuse, same as before. The only difference is that as a default choice yast offers ext3. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHt1RNtTMYHG2NR9URArvPAJ49AUaJcsUJeSX/fs9A0ljaXBs2NACePKm0 tCdFGJfCnwF6I5MxCiuLt9E= =KBJj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 16 February 2008 10:39:16 am Administrator wrote:
So, I saved the essential bits of the configurations and did a clean install of 10.2 (with reformatting the partitions) with a minimal system. This worked fine. I have updated 10.2 to the latest versions of everything and am now trying to upgrade as explained here http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux. It's failing. When I try to run any of Software management, Update or Online update, yast2 complains that it can't read the package files from the cache directory and disables the 10.3 repositories.
Does anyone know how I can complete this upgrade, or do I have to stay at 10.2 for ever!
Particular method described in http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux is for those that can debug most of the problems and in the best case you have working system, but some leftovers from previous installation. I used it in the past only to update from development version (current 11.0 Alpha2) to Factory. Now I look if YaST module Factory Update is available, then install and use that one. Though, it is only for Factory, another set of packages that is not recommended to everyone. It seems as fresh installation of 10.2, so nothing much to loose if you install 10.3 as new installation. Few words more about partitions on your hard disk, how they are mounted in 10.2, reasons why you go around (installing 10.2 and than upgrading), would be helpful to recommend some other solution. Partition information (in console as root user): fdisk -l above is L not number 1 Mount points: cat /etc/fstab Copy and post them here, please. -- Regards, Rajko. See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
So, I saved the essential bits of the configurations and did a clean install of 10.2 (with reformatting the partitions) with a minimal system. This worked fine. I have updated 10.2 to the latest versions of everything and am now trying to upgrade as explained here http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux. It's failing. When I try to run any of Software management, Update or Online update, yast2 complains that it can't read the package files from the cache directory and disables the 10.3 repositories.
Does anyone know how I can complete this upgrade, or do I have to stay at 10.2 for ever!
Particular method described in http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux is for those that can debug most of the problems and in the best case you have working system, but some leftovers from previous installation. I used it in the past only to update from development version (current 11.0 Alpha2) to Factory. Now I look if YaST module Factory Update is available, then install and use that one. Though, it is only for Factory, another set of packages that is not recommended to everyone.
It seems as fresh installation of 10.2, so nothing much to loose if you install 10.3 as new installation. Few words more about partitions on your hard disk, how they are mounted in 10.2, reasons why you go around (installing 10.2 and than upgrading), would be helpful to recommend some other solution.
This was described in my earlier (long) posting. For some reason, 10.3 won't install on my box (either from DVD or net-install CD) and it doesn't tell me why. 10.2 installs without problems.
Partition information (in console as root user): fdisk -l above is L not number 1
Mount points: cat /etc/fstab
3 relevant partitions. /dev/hda3 - 64MB ext3 - /boot /dev/hda9 - 1GB swap /dev/hda10 - 26GB reiserFS - / /dev/hdb1 - 250GB reiserFS - /home
Copy and post them here, please.
Can't do a copy & paste as the box has a minimal install (no X11, mail, browser etc.) David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 16 February 2008 12:57:32 pm Administrator wrote: ...
This was described in my earlier (long) posting. For some reason, 10.3 won't install on my box (either from DVD or net-install CD) and it doesn't tell me why. 10.2 installs without problems.
I guess there is some symptom, where installation stops, dark screen, something. What happens if you use the failsafe installation option? ...
3 relevant partitions. /dev/hda3 - 64MB ext3 - /boot /dev/hda9 - 1GB swap /dev/hda10 - 26GB reiserFS - / /dev/hdb1 - 250GB reiserFS - /home
This seems OK. Though can you check how much of /boot is used. du -h /boot -- Regards, Rajko. See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 16 February 2008 12:57:32 pm Administrator wrote: ...
This was described in my earlier (long) posting. For some reason, 10.3 won't install on my box (either from DVD or net-install CD) and it doesn't tell me why. 10.2 installs without problems.
I guess there is some symptom, where installation stops, dark screen, something.
What happens if you use the failsafe installation option?
The installation firstly drops back to text mode (install doesn't like either the ati card or the 19" widescreen) and then loops at the "Start installation or update". There is no error message apart from an unhelpful "The Installation failed" with "OK" & "Back" buttons, both of wheich seem to do the same thing. I can't find a log entry (I'm not certain I'm looking in the right place) nor are there any on-screen messages saying what happened. Very frustrating. David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-02-16 at 19:51 -0000, Administrator wrote:
The installation firstly drops back to text mode (install doesn't like either the ati card or the 19" widescreen) and then loops at the "Start installation or update". There is no error message apart from an unhelpful "The Installation failed" with "OK" & "Back" buttons, both of wheich seem to do the same thing. I can't find a log entry (I'm not certain I'm looking in the right place) nor are there any on-screen messages saying what happened. Very frustrating.
ctrl-alt-f1..f10. Some of the consoles are logs. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHt08UtTMYHG2NR9URAueqAJ4wHk3p/SXy7ZgTMdxEKa3BkgxdlgCfZix5 GD8b/6ZDaYJmMf/Y5HMx+ag= =EL8w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
The installation firstly drops back to text mode (install doesn't like either the ati card or the 19" widescreen) and then loops at the "Start installation or update". There is no error message apart from an unhelpful "The Installation failed" with "OK" & "Back" buttons, both of wheich seem to do the same thing. I can't find a log entry (I'm not certain I'm looking in the right place) nor are there any on-screen messages saying what happened. Very frustrating.
ctrl-alt-f1..f10. Some of the consoles are logs.
Nothing of any significance (errors, warnings) shows on any of them. I'll try again soon, and if it repeats (and I've had a day of this, so it probably will) I'll report the last message on each of the logs ... David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 16 February 2008 03:21:34 pm Administrator wrote:
The installation firstly drops back to text mode (install doesn't like either the ati card or the 19" widescreen) and then loops at the "Start installation or update". There is no error message apart from an unhelpful "The Installation failed" with "OK" & "Back" buttons, both of wheich seem to do the same thing. I can't find a log entry (I'm not certain I'm looking in the right place) nor are there any on-screen messages saying what happened.
Very frustrating.
ctrl-alt-f1..f10. Some of the consoles are logs.
Nothing of any significance (errors, warnings) shows on any of them.
I'll try again soon, and if it repeats (and I've had a day of this, so it probably will) I'll report the last message on each of the logs ...
David
The F10 should be the log, but you have also /var/log/YaST2/ directory and logs underneat. That is RAM disk, but you can save them to hard disk from console on terminal that you can reach from text mode with Alt-F2. Hard disk should be mounted on /mnt directory. You can also test what installation already has recognized/done from terminal with : # mount and save result with # mount > /mnt/tmp/install-mount the same with: # fdisk -l and # fdisk -l > /mnt/tmp/install-fdisk and yast logs: # mkdir /mnt/tmp/yast2 # cp -R /var/log/YaST/* /mnt/tmp/yast2 You can try to select VESA as video mode, or go direct to text mode with Esc key. This can prevent corruption from vide subsystem probe. For this use normal Installation option. It can be also related and good to know, what is your video adapter and can you use another, just as a test. Where is connected the CD/DVD drive, secondary IDE master or slave. What model and vendor is the CD/DVD drive? -- Regards, Rajko. See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
The installation firstly drops back to text mode (install doesn't like either the ati card or the 19" widescreen) and then loops at the "Start installation or update". There is no error message apart from an unhelpful "The Installation failed" with "OK" & "Back" buttons, both of which seem to do the same thing. I can't find a log entry (I'm not certain I'm looking in the right place) nor are there any on-screen messages saying what happened. Very frustrating.
Many thanks to all who supplied help. I finally got it to work - 1) change all the fstab entries to use device ID instead of device name. 2) Create a small (6GB) partition and copy the DVD contents into that. 3) Run install using this new partition as the repository and using no-apic & smallest screen size (800x600). Then 10.3 installed! David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-02-16 at 22:42 -0000, Administrator wrote:
Many thanks to all who supplied help. I finally got it to work -
That's good news! - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHt2jXtTMYHG2NR9URAnTcAJ9CzKabCjnnwJBIVkr59//vVkCmUwCeNK/i bW+WWt0Ex/H986xRR+Cr8ZU= =l3a+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Administrator schreef:
The installation firstly drops back to text mode (install
doesn't like
either the ati card or the 19" widescreen) and then loops at the "Start installation or update". There is no error message
apart from
an unhelpful "The Installation failed" with "OK" & "Back" buttons, both of which seem to do the same thing. I can't find a log entry (I'm not certain I'm looking in the right place) nor are
there any on-screen messages saying what happened.
Very frustrating.
Many thanks to all who supplied help. I finally got it to work -
1) change all the fstab entries to use device ID instead of device name.
2) Create a small (6GB) partition and copy the DVD contents into that.
3) Run install using this new partition as the repository and using no-apic & smallest screen size (800x600).
Then 10.3 installed!
David
Hurrah!! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 16 February 2008 04:42:53 pm Administrator wrote: ...
Many thanks to all who supplied help. I finally got it to work -
1) change all the fstab entries to use device ID instead of device name.
2) Create a small (6GB) partition and copy the DVD contents into that.
3) Run install using this new partition as the repository and using no-apic & smallest screen size (800x600).
Then 10.3 installed!
David
Good. You fired all cannons at once :-D -- Regards, Rajko. See http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-02-16 at 18:57 -0000, Administrator wrote:
Copy and post them here, please.
Can't do a copy & paste as the box has a minimal install (no X11, mail, browser etc.)
Then save to a file and move that file to another computer. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHt07StTMYHG2NR9URArTFAJ9s7LglswsZAt0TFUBKyDULr++DtACeJI7d izwXnJwTH0Y5UCxR4Y9oZ4s= =y0HG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-02-16 at 16:39 -0000, Administrator wrote:
I'm having a problem upgrading 10.2 to 10.3. I have downloaded the DVD and checked the md5sum. I tried upgrading by adding the iso as a repository and the update site, and then running an update. This is how I did the upgrade from 10.2 to 10.2. This failed as it was impossible to resolve all the conflicts. While trying to resolve them all, the system became unusable.
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worked fine. I have updated 10.2 to the latest versions of everything and am now trying to upgrade as explained here http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux. It's failing.
Did you notice the warning in red? That is NOT the recomended upgrade method. You should boot the DVD, and at one point you will be asked whether you want to do a fresh install or an upgrade: choose the upgrade. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHty0ZtTMYHG2NR9URAuC4AJ91YruNBNiD7oFRnmy9hO+3SuP4xgCfT3/g XPOOkiaiZL/5rqVqAZnL9KE= =ipSd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I'm having a problem upgrading 10.2 to 10.3. I have downloaded the DVD and checked the md5sum. I tried upgrading by adding
the iso as a
repository and the update site, and then running an update. This is how I did the upgrade from 10.2 to 10.2. This failed as it was impossible to resolve all the conflicts. While trying to resolve them all, the system became unusable.
...
worked fine. I have updated 10.2 to the latest versions of everything and am now trying to upgrade as explained here http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux. It's failing.
Did you notice the warning in red? That is NOT the recomended upgrade method.
You should boot the DVD, and at one point you will be asked whether you want to do a fresh install or an upgrade: choose the upgrade.
That's where I started ... and it won't under 10.3, and it doesn't tell me why it won't. 10.2 is fine. David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-02-16 at 18:58 -0000, Administrator wrote:
You should boot the DVD, and at one point you will be asked whether you want to do a fresh install or an upgrade: choose the upgrade.
That's where I started ... and it won't under 10.3, and it doesn't tell me why it won't. 10.2 is fine.
It most certainly works, because that's what I did. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHt05NtTMYHG2NR9URAjHdAJ9mXpuJzTBWrJU+npLxF2XZEsJyTwCgilKp mTmxHO2F7Tb8sA+we9vItSc= =+Wjq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
You should boot the DVD, and at one point you will be asked whether you want to do a fresh install or an upgrade: choose the upgrade.
That's where I started ... and it won't under 10.3, and it doesn't tell me why it won't. 10.2 is fine.
It most certainly works, because that's what I did.
I'm sure it works for most people (otherwise it would never have been released). It just doesn't work for me ... Soon I'll start to get paranoid and start believing the has been designed to only fail for me! David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-02-16 at 21:19 -0000, Administrator wrote:
That's where I started ... and it won't under 10.3, and it doesn't tell me why it won't. 10.2 is fine.
It most certainly works, because that's what I did.
I'm sure it works for most people (otherwise it would never have been released). It just doesn't work for me ...
Ah, ok, I understand. Sorry.
Soon I'll start to get paranoid and start believing the has been designed to only fail for me!
Sometimes things fail... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHt1f6tTMYHG2NR9URAptLAKCWWW5sbzs/T6i3mcFkql2kiBTXpACbBPqI svK8X+t5bcPmnF5ymwNEmMQ= =z7oI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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