I thought about the download recovery but decided I would probably waste more time and effort recovering a bad download than it takes to do it again. I’ll just start it when I get ready to go to bed and it will be there in the morning.
Thank you for the reply. If the FTP doesn’t work a third time, I will try something else. I have downloaded lots of software with FTP and this is the first time I ever had a problem. I was wondering if maybe the mirror site hadn’t been updated or something. I will try another on this time.
On 10/25/2011 04:56 AM, TwoHoot wrote:
>
> I thought about the download recovery but decided I would probably waste
> more time and effort recovering a bad download than it takes to do it
> again. I’ll just start it when I get ready to go to bed and it will be
> there in the morning.
>
> Thank you for the reply. If the FTP doesn’t work a third time, I will
> try something else.
why do you ask for advice, get it (from a guy who knows what he is
talking about) and then ignore it in order to repeat an already twice
failed download?
if you decide to try something else, i’d suggest you try it the way
Carlos suggested…
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems
On 2011-10-25 04:56, TwoHoot wrote:
>
> I thought about the download recovery but decided I would probably waste
> more time and effort recovering a bad download than it takes to do it
> again. I’ll just start it when I get ready to go to bed and it will be
> there in the morning.
Recovering a bad download could be a question of minutes.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
It is the correct checksum. That is the point of the original post, although (looking back) I did not make it clear to begin with.
Yast Media Check rejects the .iso as invalid. Which should I trust?
I did burn a CD of that file and attempted to install it on my second computer (thinking the md5sum was right and Yast was wrong). I ran into problems with the monitor/display on first boot. I could not complete configuration without a working monitor/display. (I should note that the display worked fine during installation) Only at that point did I start kicking myself for going ahead with a questionable installation DVD.
The second computer is where I try new things. The fact that is isn’t working isn’t a big deal - it often doesn’t work because I often screw it up playing with things I don’t understand (like setting up an Apache server to test and customize !Joomla locally). I have re-installed many times when it goes FUBAR.
I do not want to crash this computer because I rely on it for daily work. I won’t attempt to install here until it works letter perfect on the second computer.
I do not reject the expert advice I get here. I appreciate it very much and follow up with learning about the things suggested to me by the generous expert volunteers here. It just takes time to learn when I am busy with other things. I try not to be a pain (70 posts on a handful of topics over three years) to the experts here or abuse the privileges of forum membership.
On 2011-10-25 15:56, TwoHoot wrote:
> It is the correct checksum. That is the point of the original post,
> although (looking back) I did not make it clear to begin with.
>
> Yast Media Check rejects the .iso as invalid. Which should I trust?
It has to be a bug in the yast media check. I have no idea why it says it
is bad.
There is a problem when checking md5sum on the burned DVD, because the size
is rounded up to an exact sector number (or even a track), whereas the iso
file doesn’t do that. You have to tell md5sum how many bytes it has to check.
Yast media check, on the other hand, has to check itself excluding the
place where the value is stored. If you calculate a value then write it to
the iso image at the right place, the checksum varies. I don’t know how
exactly they do it, but it is tricky.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I will just fiddle with it until it works or I learn enough to ask another question.
I am retired and getting older, but computers have been a lifelong passion. For someone who grew up without electricity, the advances in my lifetime are simply amazing beyond belief. It just blows my mind to think of the possibilities and opportunity for today’s young people!
I am not a professional nor do I have any formal training. I am sure my ignorance is frustrating to people who are professionals. I should take some classes instead of plowing through 2000 page books and online tutorials on my own. At least then I could ask the right questions and speak the language.
The correct check sum is
082ebfac494b41cd56b38fb4218c545d
Which you have.
Checking the .iso and the burned DVD are different. In that even though the .iso is correct, the burned DVD might not be.
The link you quoted in post #1 is not for a _64 .iso?!
It’s not clear to me if you are talking about working with a burned DVD or not. If you are burning a DVD you absolutely must use good media and burn slowly.
On 10/25/2011 05:56 PM, caf4926 wrote:
> It’s not clear to me if you are talking about working with a burned DVD
> or not. If you are burning a DVD you absolutely must use good media and
> burn slowly.
and after the disk is burned, then boot from it and do this: http://tinyurl.com/455hbml which will check that the the disk was
correctly burned…
then install…and, if you get that “I ran into problems with the
monitor/display on first boot.” then try another boot this way:
when you see the first green screen press the down arrow (that will stop
the system so you can then type (just start typing and it will fall in
the right place)
nomodeset
then press enter and cross your fingers…if that gives you a good
screen then come back and say so…
do NOT worry about “I try not to be a pain (70 posts on a handful of
topics over three years) to the experts here or abuse the privileges of
forum membership.” because we are here to help YOU…
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems
Sorry - I misspoke. It was a Maxell DVD-R, not a CD. I don’t even think I own a blank CD, I just used the term generically to mean a “disk”. I think I must be getting old.
The “Check Installation Media” reports “No Errors Found”
After installation when it was booting for configuration, I pressed the down arrow key at the first green screen and typed ‘nomodeset’ as you suggested. Same result with the monitor/display - It is vertical stripes of green gibbrish like before.
But … something is different because I can get a good screen this time by booting in Failsafe mode.
Am I right in thinking that the wrong display/monitor drivers might have been installed?
Fail safe includes other parameters, one or more of those may be what is allowing the boot. You can see them at boot by moving to the text area at the bottom of the screen and scrolling back and forth. They can also be seen/changed in Yast-boot configure and in /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
On 10/26/2011 01:16 AM, TwoHoot wrote:
> Yast Check Media returns an Error message BOTH on the .iso file and the
> DVD. The message reads (in red):
>
> “MD5 Sum does not match
> This medium should not be used”
truth is i’ve used openSUSE exclusively since 9.2 and i’d heard of “Yast
Check Media” until i saw it in your post…