Re: [opensuse] 10.3 installation hangs after media check on a laptop known to work with 10.2

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 11:47 +0000, Myrosia Dzikovska wrote:

I have to take this back - the installation worked, after all. I left the installer running "just because", and after a full hour (!) it showed me the release notes. From there, everything went smoothly - must be some really weird quirk of either the computer or the DVD.

Myrosia

I found that when I installed the AMD-64bit version of 10.3 on my laptop that I was further ahead by taking the defaults as presented re: the suggested packages. Installing other wanted stuff after the system was booted and running was a breeze.

On Feb 7, 2008 9:14 AM, G T Smith wrote:

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Myrosia Dzikovska wrote:

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I have an old Sony Vaio laptop with OpenSuse 10.2 installed. It is in good working order, no hardware problems. When I try to upgrade it to 10.3, the installer hangs very early on. The system boots from DVD, I select "installation", it asks me for language, I select English (UK), then media check - it passes. When I click "next", I get the "wait" cursor, but nothing happens. The DVD light comes up for a short time, but there is no hard drive activity, and the installer just sits there forever doing nothing. The DVD is fine - it passes media check, and I used it previously to install 10.3 on another machine. The laptop itself is running 10.2, which I installed without problems a year ago.

I saw something similar in the past on a system where there was some partitioning problem, but it does not appear to be the case here, the best I can tell - everything seems to be booting and functioning normally, and I don't see anything suspicions when I run fdisk -l (granted, I don't know awfully much about partitioning).

What can I do to debug this?

Myrosia

Which model of VAIO. The VAIO is a little eccentric with Linux at the best of times and getting it going may require a bit of tweaking.

I would suggest a visit to....

http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/sony.html

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