Re: [opensuse] need some help with a dodgy server

Hi Evan,

So to see you have hardware problem. Your description would suggest that your
DVD-rom(hardware) is filty, try with cleaning lenses. If this is not case
than erase MBR on your primery HDD.

Regards,
Zoran







On Monday 02 April 2007 17:37, Evan Ingram Schreef:
Hi there,

I've got a server - p4 3ghz, supermicro 5014c mobo, 2x512 pc3500,
2x160GB sata hdd, 16x dvdr etc.

Anyway it was previously running suse9.2 fine. Gone through some changes
but i tried to upgrade it to 10.0 and it had some issues where the
installer was saying it was missing packages. I had previously used the
same installation media on another machine and it worked fine. So i
thought id do a clean install on it... same problem. Did the check media
thing during installation and it said it failed md5 checksum. I tried
the disk on another machine and it installed fine.

I've reset the bios to factory defaults, checked the hard drives by
plugging them into another machine (OS installed fine onto them), i've
switched out the dvd drive to a different one, done a memory test. Still
getting the same problem.

Tried 10.2 and get the same missing packages error on install and md5
checksum fail. Tried CentOS and it has an error installing packages. I
tried windows XP (yeahyeah) and it looped during the install, asked me
for registration key and computer name, installed, then asked for reg
key and computer name again, installed then booted properly. But it only
found one of the 2 hard drives.

Can anyone offer any assistance? The hardware is out of warranty now.

regards
~Evan
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