formatted fedora CORE 4 now can't load openSUSE

I wanted to replace fedoraCORE 4 with openSUSE 10.3 on my PC while installing and checking the media it completed 99% of the check then threw a media error. Stupidly thinking that it was something small I continued to load 10.3. The installation was going well then after formatting the linux partition the installation threw a couple of errors i skipped the first three then decided to abort the installation re-download the iso file and try again this time with openSUSE 11.0 Here is my issue:

When I boot from disk the boot screen comes up but I have no installation option it gives me

openSUSE-11.0
failsafe-openSUSE-11.0
memory test
Hard Disk
Check Media

when selecting openSUSE 11.0 or openSUSE 11.0 safe mode it begins to boot then asks for a linux login

I don’t have a linux login because it didn’t give me the option to set one up before I aborted the 10.3 installation

any suggestions?

Dell Dimension 4500

The suse 11.0 user and root configuration happens at the start of the installation.
I would think of reinstalling it again.

The problem is when i insert the boot disk it doesn’t give me the option to install I have tried installing both the GNOME and KDE 4.0 versions with the same problem

Check the md5sums of your iso if it is okay the problem could be somewhere like hardware related or bios support.

> The problem is when i insert the boot disk it doesn’t give me the option
> to install I have tried installing both the GNOME and KDE 4.0 versions
> with the same problem

you also said:

When I boot from disk the boot screen comes up but I have no
installation option it gives me

openSUSE-11.0
failsafe-openSUSE-11.0
memory test
Hard Disk
Check Media

so, the FIRST thing you should do ALWAYS do when wanting to install from
a SuSE install disk is to select “Check Media” and if it gets to
99.999999999999999% and then throws one tiny little error you THROW that
DVD/CD away…
or use it as a place mat…
but do NOT use it to try to install…
but, you have already learned that…right?

and, before you start over i suggest you read this, and its relevant
embedded links: http://tinyurl.com/3vwrzl

http://xkcd.com/456/


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