Re: [SLE] 9.3 partial install

From: Ken Schneider (suse-list_at_bout-tyme.net)
Date: 05/10/05

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Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 18:36:25 -0400

    On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 18:02 -0400, James Wright wrote:
    >
    > Ken Schneider wrote:
    > > Tried installing 9.3 on my old server and due to a flaky DVD drive when
    > > the first boot came up it went straight to the kdm login prompt. Since
    > > no passwords were set yet I can not login.
    > > Can anyone tell me where I need to set/unset something, install
    > > something so that the install can finish?
    > > I don't consider this the fault of SuSE as the DVD drive is going bad
    > > and I ignored many install errors.
    > > Thanks,
    >
    > Can you reboot with the DVD in the drive and repair (and repair, and
    > repair) over and over again until it is complete? Then you could at
    > least try to copy the DVD to your HD and install broken/mis-installed
    > packages from the HD? Or maybe if you have a spare HD you can copy the
    > DVD to it, boot from that HD and install to the HD that you want the
    > system on. Is the DVD drive repairable? I am assuming you have check
    > the power cable, IDE cable, and possible used a DVD cleaner or
    > compressed air.
    >
    Yes have checked all that. I know the drive is starting to fail )over
    heating), it just happened to fail at the wrong time during the install.
    I was hoping to be able to log in and copy the DVD to the second hard
    drive but I can't even log in as that part of the install never started,
    setting root's passwd and adding one user.
    Going to do a minimal install w/X in the morning, hopefully with fewer
    packages it should complete then I will be able to rsync the dvd to the
    second harddrive and install more packages. 

    -- 
Ken Schneider
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 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably
  the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
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