I was doing a fresh install last night using the DVD. At 7% completed, it hung. At first I told it to abort, then when it asked me if I really wanted to I said no and it continued (when I said Abort, the light on the DVD eventually went out). At 34% completed it hung again - this time I couldn't abort and the light on the DVD stayed on. I finally had to pop out the DVD for a second, and it seemingly went on w/ the installation. It was corrupted of course and I had to start over. The DVD hung again and so I decided to try a third time using the CDs. It successfully installed about 3 G worth of stuff off of the first 2 CDs. It asked for the 3rd CD and I put it in. It kept asking for the 3rd CD, and I couldn't eject it. I
The DVD and CDs were fresh out of an unopened box, and otherwise the DVD works fine (w/ everything else). I made a copy of CD #3 from a set we have at work, re-installed last night and that one worked just fine. Guess I did have a bum CD after all....:( The install was still a lot of trouble. After installing everything I had chosen from 4 CDs, it proceeded to the screen to type in a root password. As soon as I started to type in a password, the screen went back to the install screen and it asked for CD2 again! I put it in and it re-installed everything from CD2. Not only that, but it installed a whole BUNCH of stuff I hadn't asked for. Then it asked for CD3. I told it to skip it (since it was already done w/ this on). Then it asked for CD4 and I tried to tell it to skip that one too. It wouldn't. I had to put in CD4 and watch it install everything again. Then it proceeded as normal. HOWEVER, despite what I told it to do, it installed Grub in the MBR of the first hard disk (Windows). I could no longer boot Windows. I went to Yast and reinstalled Grub on my Linux hard drive, but it still wouldn't boot windows. I finally managed to re-activate the first partition of the Windows drive, and after much guessing about w/ Grub command line parameters finally managed to boot windows. But now it won't recognize any of the other windows partitions. So I'll have to try fdisk and see if they are "hidden" and fix that. So far I am extremely disappointed w/ this 8.1 install - which started out a week ago as a simple upgrade from 8.0. I know, I know - many others have had flawless installs. I myself upgraded a machine at work from 8.0 to 8.1 with no trouble at all. But this mess at home has been an absolute nightmare. I do not have an exotic setup - all of my hardware is pretty standard. My windows partition on which resided Boot Magic became hidden after the installation of Grub, and no efforts to unhide it have been successful - even w/ a special utility I got from PowerQuest's web site. So I can't even uninstall it. I may try to recover what I have and see how it goes, or maybe it's best to completely blow away the Linux drive and start over from scratch..........sigh. Sorry for the rant but this has been really frustrating. Thanks, Mike ------------------------------- Cleary_Mike@emc.com ------------------------------- A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse. -----Original Message----- From: Marcel Broekman [mailto:m.broek@chello.nl] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 8:23 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] HELP - DVD hangs; bad CD (?) during installation Hi Mike There aren't any really important system packages are on cd3 so your OK with your system i guess. Looks like you've mistreated your dvd/cd's or have a crappy dvd drive :-( My solution would be to change the install source in Yast to a SuSE ftp mirror and check for unresolved dependencies (and missing packages) and install them this way. Or install and use apt-get (apt-get -f install). cheers, Marcel Cleary_Mike@emc.com wrote: tried
the "pin hole" on the front of the CDROM drive, and I still couldn't open it! I finally told it to skip the 3rd CD and it ejected it and asked for the 4th CD. I put in CD 4 and it continued on to complete the installation. I was able to boot it up, startx, etc. It seemed to work fine (so far....).
My question is this: how do I find out what wasn't installed from CD 3? Or do I just wait for apps to crash.....:(
TIA,
Mike ------------------------------------------------------- Cleary_Mike@emc.com ------------------------------------------------------- Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.
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