Hi, I’ll start by saying that I am as noobish as I could possibly be. I’m excellent with Windows, i’m new to OpenSUSE. I used Ubuntu for a short while, but that was over a year ago. So here’s my situation. I am going on a family vacation in and I have a lot of work to get done for college. I just recently started my online courses for my freshman year. There will be no internet down there, so I need to get as much done as possible to prepare for a completely offline week. Well, the only laptop I have was very, very slow (It belongs to my parents, whom download anything that looks useful - and trust me, most of it is NOT useful). Of course i wasn’t even going to ATTEMPT to speed that up, so I just decided to reinstall. Better yet, i searched for a linux distro that is known for it’s speed and mobility. Before I downloaded this software, I went ahead and reinstalled windows even though I knew that I would be whiping the entire drive again. Trust me, 40 minutes to reinstall windows actually would have saved me a lot of stress. Anyways, I have ran into a problem. It seems that my download did not turn out the way I wanted. Somewhere between downloading, burning, and installing a problem occurred. SO, is it possible to run a health check? Basically, I’d like to have the system run a check on itself to see where there are issues and, if possible, automatically fix the issues using the internet connection that I currently have. I have around 2 gigs of data I can transfer, so redownloading is not possible at this point. The download is twice the amount of data I can transfer right now due to my mobile net plan. If this isn’t possible, what is the best choice of action for me at this point.
I have JUST recently started up for the first time. I was hoping that maybe the system would still run fine, but in the first 5 minutes i noticed some problems. I tried viewing a youtube video. Of course, i had to first download flash (I clicked the link on youtube). The installation file tried to open with Apper? And it failed. I redownloaded and tried to open again, it failed. Apper will not open, it crashes immediately. Also, now i dont have a task bar at the bottom of my screen, nor + ] X buttons at the top right, and a bit ago my screen was flickering black. I’m sure a restart or relogin would fix the task bar and the exit buttons, but i’m afraid I’m only going to continue to run into issues.
What if that option isn’t available to me? If i ordered it, it wouldn’t get to me for a while.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:46:03 +0000, GhostSkyn wrote:
> Anyways, I have ran into a problem.
> It seems that my download did not turn out the way I wanted. Somewhere
> between downloading, burning, and installing a problem occurred. SO, is
> it possible to run a health check?
Yes, there’s a media check option on the DVD when you boot it. You can
also do md5sum checkums on the ISO file before burning it, but even if
you get a good download, do the media check to ensure that the burn was
good.
If you downloaded with IE, it may have truncated the file (similarly, if
you downloaded to a FAT32 partition, it would be truncated because FAT32
doesn’t support a large enough filesize).
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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But can it search for solutions and automatically fix parts that are corrupt? That’s what I’m looking to do. Check my dependencies and what-not for the missing or damaged files. I downloaded using BitTorrent, not internet explorer. Also! Is there an easy guide or source documentation that I can download now for when I will have 0 internet access? I may run into problems at that point, and i doubt i can learn and memorize this OS in 4 days.
On 2012-03-27 23:46, GhostSkyn wrote:
> The
> installation file tried to open with Apper? And it failed.
Don’t use apper, remove it. Use yast or zypper.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2012-03-28 00:26, GhostSkyn wrote:
>
> But can it search for solutions and automatically fix parts that are
> corrupt?
You can check and correct the downloaded ISO without downloading it in full
again.
If you mean check and repair the system, no.
> That’s what I’m looking to do. Check my dependencies and
> what-not for the missing or damaged files.
Dependencies and such yes, you can check. “zypper verify”. Also “rpm -qa
–verify”.
> I downloaded using
> BitTorrent, not internet explorer. Also! Is there an easy guide or
> source documentation that I can download now for when I will have 0
> internet access? I may run into problems at that point, and i doubt i
> can learn and memorize this OS in 4 days.
Mmm… maybe not a good idea… :-?
There are a lot of docs at doc.opensuse.org. The books have a pdf version
that you can install on the computer using Yast.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Thank you everyone for your time. Many great responses in such a little amount of time. I appreciate the help. Thanks again!
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:26:02 +0000, GhostSkyn wrote:
> But can it search for solutions and automatically fix parts that are
> corrupt?
No, because that’s not what it’s designed to do.
You have an ISO. If part of it is corrupt, you need to redownload the
ISO.
If you use a torrent download, then you’re more likely to get a clean
download since there’s built-in checksumming as part of the bittorrent
protocol.
Jim
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
On 2012-03-28 06:53, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:26:02 +0000, GhostSkyn wrote:
>
>> But can it search for solutions and automatically fix parts that are
>> corrupt?
>
> No, because that’s not what it’s designed to do.
>
> You have an ISO. If part of it is corrupt, you need to redownload the
> ISO.
No, no. You can use a good metalink downloader, such as aria2c, which
compares the checksum of sections of the iso, and if a section fails it is
downloaded again. Only the wrong section. The actual download can happen
using hhtp, ftp, torrent, whatever.
Its use should be mandatory >:-)
But maybe he is thinking of a feature such as the automatic repair
functionality we had in the DVD about two years ago, which was removed
because it was not maintained.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)