Basic installation question - 11.2

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Hi,
After I burn the DVD image, I put the disc on the computer and boot. The installation screen appears, the acknowledgement screen appears, then the installation checks my system and gives me a yast window with an error about something related to URLs and repositories. I cannot continue with the installation.

I am 100% new at this and thought it would be as easy as installing ubuntu (which I installed on a laptop and works flawlessly).

I am trying distros and opensuse is compatible with my video card right out of the box apparently, so that’s why I chose it for my desktop.

Do I need to copy the dvd image to the hard disk of the computer I want to install opensuse on, and use the dvd to boot as well?
Thanks.

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Did you run the media check
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Nope, did not run the media check.
I’m at work now, so I’ll do that tonight at home.
What does the media check do, exactly? If I encounter errors, what are my options?
The PC I want to run opensuse on is an IBM 8303 KKU with 2GB RAM, 40GB HDD, and a 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS video card. I assumed these would be sufficient to run any Linux distro, including opensuse

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The repositories have moved since the release of 11.2. I would bypass the bit about repositories, and add it after you have an installed system. The DVD doesn’t know the repositories moved, so you could keep running into this issue.

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The media check makes sure there were no errors in the burn.

Normally you would do a md5sum of the .iso you download and burn that if it is good. Then run the media check on the burned dvd or cd

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How do I bypass them? If I click on skip/cancel, etc, the installation aborts.

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I don’t know about this. My repos are there from install. I have done dozens of installs with the DVD and no problem with the repos url.
Installs do not depend on internet access anyway. I do them all the time, default install, never ignore anything, it just runs on thru regardless.

Check the media

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Jonathan R wrote:
> The repositories have moved since the release of 11.2. I would bypass
> the bit about repositories, and add it after you have an installed
> system. The DVD doesn’t know the repositories moved, so you could keep
> running into this issue.

oh man…who made THAT decision?

isn’t is possible to alias to were the repos are from where the DVD
tries to go??

or, how did this happen?
when did it happen?
is it reversible?
or should we just expect everyone trying to install 11.2 to hit this
problem?

wait, how do repos ‘move’?

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palladium

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I checked my media, and it was fine. I encountered the same problem, and I know others that have to. Notice it’s the url’s in the DVD throwing the problem.

You are right, internet is not required, unless you select that option to download more repos.

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OK, it appears my problem was media. Some problem with the image I downloaded. I’ll try again tonight.

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Installed with no problems, resolution was good and opensuse recognized it during installation.
However, there are problems with the updates. The system can’t get these.

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su terminal

zypper up