Hi everyone!
After struggling with Mint 13 (cannot handle multiple monitors) and Ubuntu Studio (just horrible, very often problems) I return to openSUSE. It was a horror creating the liveusb (unetbootin copied the images in 5 seconds…), but I finally made it to boot. The installer gave some errors of the absence of the DVD, but I finished the installation a while later. When I tried to boot, KDE froze at the point where it loads the desktop. It does this everytime when I try to boot. And I am not that an expert in SUSE that I now how the rescueconsole works.
On top of that I am not able to boot Windows 7, any ideas on that?
Offtopic: Why do I need to fill in my adress etcetera for an account?
@PiElle: It is a good, old-fashioned BIOS(: I partitioned it using the built-in partition manager. Before I had already wiped my Ubuntu Studio partition. The partitioning did not make complete sense, though: it made sda1 and sda2, but those were the same as sda5 and sda6 (sda3 = swap, sda4 = W7). sda1 and two were respectively 20 and 160 GB, root and home.
@gogalthorp: I mostly use Imagewriter, but that does not always install properly on certain Distros.
I am sorry I have not noted my system requirements.
Phenom II 1045T
ASRock N68-GE3 UCC
XFX 6850 BE
8GB ICIDU ram @ 1333MHz
HDD is an ordinary 500GB Samsung one; DVD-drives are Lite-on.
I hope I do not have to format my Windows partition?
Other distros use there own methods that don’t work with openSUSE. It all depends on how the iso is built and structured. With openSUSE since 12.3 you just make a binary low level copy no added files or settings. In fact it is reported that cp to the device works. Have not tried that
Thanks!
Unfortunately, after I dd’ed the image to my USB, did a reinstallation, it still stucks at loading KDE at the first boot (after automatic configuration). Can there be something wrong with the image (downloaded with torrent)? I thought torrents automatically do a checksum, don’t they?
> Can there be something wrong with the image (downloaded
> with torrent)? I thought torrents automatically do a checksum, don’t
> they?
Yes, I understand so. But you can also do a manual check.
If you go to the official download page, do the selection as if you were
going to download the same ISO, and then go further down the page where
there is a link to the md5sum file.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
@gogalthorp: my motherboard had a nVidea chipset, but I use a PCI-e 6850 from ATI (which is even worse at Linux drivers, seems to become better…). I have not tried the safe mode (or do you mean the second boot option made in grub?). Should I try to alter the boot options in grub to “nomodeset”? That has worked a few times before with broken ATI drivers…
@robin_listas: I checked it, but the md5 codes (from the website and calculated from the iso) are exactly the same…
> @robin_listas: I checked it, but the md5 codes (from the website and
> calculated from the iso) are exactly the same…
Huh? then the download is bad.
In the download place there are instructions to repair a bad download.
I would use aria2c with a metalink url. Allow it to start downloading,
then stop it. Replace the download file with your file (it should have
the exact same name). Restart aria2c, it will do a check, and then
download only the bad sections. I have not tried this in a long time, so
I don’t know how exact they are.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 19:46:03 +0000, andreazzz wrote:
> Offtopic: Why do I need to fill in my adress etcetera for an account?
Because we don’t like spammers, and having to fill out info for an
account makes it more difficult for spammers to enter through the web
interface. Having to provide a valid e-mail address makes it just that
little bit harder - and also gives us an address for notifications and
whatnot that the forum software sends out.
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:53:06 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-08-20 22:06, andreazzz wrote:
>
>> @robin_listas: I checked it, but the md5 codes (from the website and
>> calculated from the iso) are exactly the same…
>
> Huh? then the download is bad.
No, the md5 matches (from the part of the post you quoted), so the
download is emphatically /not/ bad, Carlos.
Might it be worth trying to install Gnome3 desktop? How should I do that (->when booting recovery mode no terminal is booted, only all checkpoints are passed)? What is SUSE’s install command?
On 2013-08-23 11:36, andreazzz wrote:
>
> Might it be worth trying to install Gnome3 desktop? How should I do that
> (->when booting recovery mode no terminal is booted, only all
> checkpoints are passed)? What is SUSE’s install command?
If you are in recovery or rescue mode, it is pointless to install
anything, it will not run.
The command would be zypper.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
