Re: [SLE] 9.0 DVD installation troubles - same as 8.2

All the issue reminds me about the troubles i had with 8.0 & 8.2 installation on my Latitude C840 (only one optical, a combo CDRW/DVD). Looks like our favourite distro did not solve the issue yet. Anyway, with 8.2 i could solve the issue: forcing a load of ide scsi module (hdb=ide-scsi) performing a manual install loading some modules from the list of modules forcing the hdb=cdrom Sorry if I cannot help right now, but i did not write down the steps. Perhaps i could get a copy of 9.0... Look for another posting of mine of two to three months earlier. Bye Alle 15:03, domenica 2 novembre 2003, E.F.Maurer ha scritto:

On Sunday 02 November 2003 08:35, Adam Leach wrote:

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Quoting "E.F.Maurer" :

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On Sunday 02 November 2003 03:11, Terence McCarthy wrote:

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On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:35:12 -0500

"Rafael E. Herrera" wrote:

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A temporary solution for those of you who haven't installed/upgraded yet, I would disconnect any extra CD-ROM drives and leave the DVD as master and the only cd drive in the system.

I installed 9.0 yesterday morning from dvd- (the only hiccup was, once installed, having to boot using acpi=no to stop the machine powering up and straightaway shutting down!), with a cdrw also installed in my box.

Was your dvd secondary master? with the cdr secondary slave? I think it works for install this way. But if you install with the drives in the opposite configuration(cdrw master) you can only install from the cds. Changing the order of the drives after installation doesn't seem to affect the outcome of trying to change the source of installation to dvd.

I've got a machine with DVD & CDRW as separate drives and got a strange error that it could find the installation medium when analysing the packages. My CDRW is the master with the DVD as Slave.

When I took a CD out of the CDRW, it finally discovered the DVD again and continued with no problems

Hmmm! I think i might have had a cd in the drive when i first tried to install.

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