I was about to reinstall the opensuse 11.1 since 11.2 was giving me troubele and ran the ‘check installation media’ and it turned out every disc I burn gives me ‘ERROR READING SECTOR 1891680’. This CD-ROM is broken. Looks like there is a problem with installation.
I already burned like 5 different DVDs - same problem.
Any ideas?
Try a different brand of media otherwise it’s very possible that your burner is on it’s last legs.
Actually I get the same and I think the same sector. You are burning from 11.2 k3b?
I still have 10.2 installed on another drive and can boot to it. It burned without problems on the same hardware.
I think there is something broken in k3b or it’s support programs in 11.2.
Gogalhrop,
Not sure what you mean that I am burning from ‘11.2 k3b’. I simply downloaded the file from internet (Software.openSUSE.org), burned it using CDBurnerXP .ISO style, track at once…and that is it.
What am I doing wrong? Or what should I be doing?
You’re not doing wrong. Your download is corrupted. What you need to do after downloading is check the download’s MD5sum. Then burn the ISO at lowest speed, and perform a media check before installing. If all is OK, then install. Not before, no computer likes bits that have fallen.
Knurpht,
I am afraid that even after running md5 sum the file will be corrupted. It seems like any file I donwload (for opensuse) comes as corrupted. What version of opensuse do you have? And where did you download it?
I took it straight from opensuse website.
Thanks.
Thought you were downl loading 11.1 from Suse 11.2. If from xp ignore me
Straight from the openSUSE website. Maybe you should download through torrent, that does a lot of checking on the way.
Are you sure you are burning the image to disk, not the ISO as a file to a data disk?
And my versions, find below, + some 9.3, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1 and 11.2 others, 32 as well as 64 bit.
Yup, burning image to disk not data to disk. Actually, I just learned that internet explorer can’t download properly more than 4GB of data at a time. Maybe that explains screwy downloads.
Downloading now through Firefox and Google Chrome. We will see…
Thanks again guys for all your help.
I am having the same problem. I used getright as a work around to the 4gb limit. Also if the download breaks it uses a rollback xkb feature to ensure no data is corrupted. I checked the integrity of the ISO and compared the md5 checksum to the one provided from the ftp mirror site at Suse whcih appeared identical.
I believe my burner to be OK and I varified the disc after burning.
This is the source for my MD5 check and ISO ftp://ftp2.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/opensuse/distribution/11.2/iso/.
Any ideas?