Re: Problem installing openSUSE 10.2 (box set)

Pat Kelecy wrote:
I purchased the box set of openSUSE 10.2 from Novell (which just arrived
yesterday) and decided to do a test install on an older PC I have (just to
gain some experience going through the process) before doing it "for real"
on my workstation. To my surprise the installed failed! It started off
fine (I basically accepted the recommended defaults and it started
installing) but about half-way through the first CD I got the message:
"Package binutils was not found on the medium". It then ask whether I want
to retry, ignore, or abort. I retried, but to no avail. I then ignored,
but shortly after a red box popped up telling me "an error occurred during
the installation".

I tried again (selecting kde rather than gnome for the desktop, just to see
if that would have any effect) and a similar error occurred again, but this
time it said "Package ghostscript-library not found on the medium"

I tried a thrid time, and received yet a different message "Package
dektop-data_SUSE was not found on the medium".

Any ideas what might be going on with this? Odd that every failure seem to
produce a different message. Could it be a bad CD-Drive?

Thanks for any help with this. -Pat



This is a problem I've encountered with 3 different systems, all with
all new hardware, and with several DVDs. Several others have had the
same problem.

The work around is to do a minimal install (no added packages), then use
retry several times - ignore and abort ALWAYS abort with an error. This
is an error in their programming! It make take 2, 3, 4, etc. attempts
from the beginning, but it will eventually finish. Adding the extra is
safer after the basic install.

It's just one of the things that need to be repaired in 10.3 before
final release. I could not find a list of which 10.2 problems have been
fixed on the 10.3 alpha download site, only which 10.3 bugs have not yet
been fixed. I refuse to trust 10.3 until they say that specific 10.2
bugs have been fixed. And then there will be new ones... For bugs 10.0
was decent, 10.1 terrible, 10.2 better but where will 10.3 be?

John
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