On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Vahe Avedissian
1. Early into the install it asked me to insert the DVD media. The media was obviously there, otherwise the install would not start.
Are you using a SATA or ATA DVD drive?
4. I'm seen a lot of traffic on naming by-id versus label versus name. I guess with 10.3 opensuse started using name by-id and now with 11.0 I notice the device ordering is changed as well. My system has one IDE (Sata), one SCSI (harware raid), and one dm-raid array which is not properly recognized and appears as a set of IDE drives. With 10.3 or earlier release AT INSTALL the disks are ordered IDE then SCSI. With 11.0 they are ordered SCSI and then IDE.
I've had issues with this for a while. IDE burners were /dev/sr0, then they were the actual device like /dev/hdc, now they are back to sr0. Using SCSI and IDE seems to be ok, but when you used a USB driver, it could end up being seen as sda instead of the actual SCSI drive if it was plugged in as boot. Now that the kernel is not only assigning SATA as SCSI, but IDE as well, I've ran into a few issues with the ordering. I can see using SATA as sdx, but not IDE. I recently swapped the DVD-ROM in my Thinkpad for a DVD-RW, and it's now seen as /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdc, and that's messed up my links for programs like MPlayer.
6. I ended up doing a completely new re-install from scratch. That went reasonably smooth.
I've done new installs for a long time. I just recently installed SuSE v7.3 on an old Thinkpad, and then tried upgrading it to v8.1. It managed to make the / partition read only and I just wiped it and did a fresh install. It reminded me why I usually do a fresh install. I've never had a lot of luck with upgrades. I also usually disconnect other drives and then re-add them(via YaST or just editing /etc/fstab) afterwards. That's also why I have a 5GB / and then the rest of the drive as a /files directory so that IF I have to re-install, I don't lose all my extra files. That's saved me many times with a hosed install.
Any suggestions on solving this are greatly appreciated.
Like I said, disconnect all drives but the install drive, and then re-add them in. This may break the install if the drive letters change(and people say only WinDoZe uses drive letters.... :-)...), but at least this way you will know that your data is safe. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org