Re: Installing openSuSE 10.3-Beta2 - What is CD1?

I think in the meantime I could further narrow down the problem.

Since the partitions I need to use for installing openSuse almost all have partition numbers >15, the installer informed me about the new libata with its ridiculous low count of only 15 partitions it can handle and advised, to use the kernel argument "hwprobe=-modules.pata" to fall back to the previous type, which can handle many more partitions.

Apparently this very kernel argument is now causing troublewhen it comes to Configuring Installation Packages (or similar), right after the NIC page and the selection of the installation type page.

For some reason, the installer now seems to have lost its ability to still read from the CD drive with the installation CD.

So that is where the trouble seems to be rooted.

So, now I either can't install because of lack of support for more than 15 partitions or I cannot install, because the installer loses access to the installation CD :-(


Am 27.08.07 11.38 schrieb Wolfi:
Trying to newly install GNOME openSuSE 10.3-Beta2 from CD, the installation program is requesting the "openSUSE 10.3 CD 1", after having selected the NIC (I got 2).

Now, what exactly is this ominous CD-1 supposed to be?

At http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3-Beta2/iso/cd/ there only are:
openSUSE-10.3-Beta2-Addon-Lang-i386.iso 22-Aug-2007 18:03 658M
openSUSE-10.3-Beta2-Addon-NonOss-BiArch.iso 22-Aug-2007 17:28 372M
openSUSE-10.3-Beta2-GNOME-i386.iso 22-Aug-2007 12:33 676M

According to http://software.opensuse.org/developer, at least if I didn't completely misunderstood what's written there, in my case the
openSUSE-10.3-Beta2-GNOME-i386.iso should be sufficient for an installation with selected language to be German.

So, what's going on here and how do I manage to get through the installation?


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