Once again I ask for help. Customer Service? what's that???

See below for original post. I'm going to try an NFS install from my HP pc once I get it setup properly, but this is not a long range solution, especially if my target box is at a remote site w/ no connection from the outside.

From a previous post Fergus Wilde said:

So yast didn't get up early this morning and make your breakfast - bad luck. I had to reinstall Windows last night, 23 reboots and four hours later I'm still nowhere near a working system, cf. the suse 8.0 install which was like a beautiful dream experienced on a sunny beach by comparison.

I don't want it to make my breakfast. I just want it to work as advertised. For me it's been just the opposite. I have two brand new machines w/ no OS on either. I've reinstalled Suse at least 10 times on each trying to get a complete install. I took one of the machines and a w2k install went in perfectly the first time. I posted the problem (see below) with no response. I've sent in a ticket to SUSE - same result - no responses. If I weren't already working on 2 other projects (other than the one I'm trying to install Linux for) I'd get in and hack Yast2 to make it work. But I don't have time for this. I guess you get what you pay for. bhd From: "Bob Dixon" Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 17:49:58 -0400 Message-ID: <000b01c23680$baf04ee0$0300a8c0@BELLOC> Subject: [SLE] Can't find CD2 (or CDx) on 7.3 install (Could not mount source medium) Tried installing Suse 7.3 on P4 machine and the installation process could not find CD2 after I put it in the tray and clicked on the 'OK' button. I'm using Yast2 and booting from a cdrom. I clicked on the 'Show Details' checkbox and it displayed the following: Could not mount the source medium. mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mount read-only mount: you must specify the filesystem type I clicked on 'SKIP' and had the same results when it prompted for CD3 and so on - ad nauseum. AND Yast2 appears to be reading the first cd (CD1) with no problems. Its just when I have to insert another CD that Yast has a problem. Yast2 seems to go on and 'finish' the install, such as it is. It configures the monitor, allows me to setup network configuration, and then reboots and allows me to login. I then start up Yast2 and select 'install software'. I see no packages except for 'z???' and 'zall'. This is NOT a dual boot machine and this install is on a slicked down PC. Particulars: P4, Amptron XP4-925LSD motherboard, 512 meg of DDR RAM, 40G Samsung HD, Samsung 52X cd-rom. I CAN mount the cdrom manually and read from it once I'm logged in. mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom I have successfully installed this same OS on HP P3 platforms w/ no problems using these same media CD's.

From /var/log/y2log:

modules/MediaUI.ycp:209 mountlog mount: block device /dev/hdc is write protected, mount read-only mount you must specify the filesystem type I've tried to install from scratch several times with the same results. Any suggestion? tia, Bob Dixon Bob Dixon mailto:bdixon@logictrends.com bdixon@logictrends.com mailto:hcdixon@bellsouth.net hcdixon@bellsouth.net 404.310.7167