Re: [opensuse] 10.3 install trouble

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:28 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
I'm trying to install 10.3 on a 4-year old 32-bit machine. I don't do
enough installs to remember all the gotchas, so it's always a fraught
process if anything goes wrong :(

I blew a 10.3 DVD, verified it and ran the installer. It all went
happily and eventually started installing the packages so I went home
and left it to it. This morning I came in to find

Missing operating system

on the screen. Which means it's messed up the MBR? I had a poke in the
BIOS but don't see anything that looks odd.

I've now found a page that I hope tells me the steps to fix this (I'll
post a link if it works). But (a) why is it broken and (b) why is there
no install troubleshooting how-to (or at least nobody's told me of one)?

So I put the DVD back in and selected Repair Installed System

Now it says:

An error occurred during the installation

What an incredibly irritating message! I know an error occurred, that's
why I asked it to repair the system!

I went to the opensuse site but haven't found any useful installation
troubleshooting guides. Can anybody point me to one, please? Or any
relevant threads on the list.

Oh yes, the video. When it starts booting, and up until the point where
you choose install or repair or rescue etc, the video is fine. After
that point it switches into some mode that isn't handled properly with
flickering characters etc. It's a rage 128 pro graphics card, nothing
fancy and old enough that there shouldn't be any bugs left. So what's
going on there?

I worked around this issue by selecting VESA resolution before starting
the install but why do I have to? This isn't rocket science.

So I'm not impressed by the 10.3 installation process so far.

Cheers, Dave

Repair install is broken on the 10.3 DVD :-( See the ton of earlier
list complaints. I had 2 borked installs with 10.3, but was always able
to boot back to the install DVD and the installer would either (1)
reinstall everything or (2) pick up a little before the install crash
and complete.

Thanks for that. Hopefully I'll be able to find those threads.

This is very very frustrating.

Agreed. These releases increasingly look like betas. I've got better
things to do than fight broken install & management systems.

Cheers, Dave
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