I have installed 11.3 and really hashed it. I am getting no where and cannot find my way around.
I tried to install as a partition with Ubuntu and Windows 7.
Result. I have lost Both Ubuntu and windows with SUSE 11.3 installed and with YAST2 (as superuser)
I cannot install belkin to get an internet connection, cannot instal Ubuntu or any thing else. I get the following;
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the centraldirectory and zipfile cannot be found on the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of the /media/Ubuntu 9.10 i386/wubi.exe or
/media/Ubuntu 9.10 i386/wubi.exe.zip, and cannot find /media/Ubuntu 9.10 i386/wubi.exe.ZIP, period
I think I have not only installed this incorrectly but I have something I don’t fully understand.
I would like to reinstall Ubuntu and then if I cannot get on with SUSE I would appreciate some help on how to uninstall SUSE.
The easiest way to uninstall openSUSE is to reinstall, or possibly repair, Ubuntu and use that opportunity to return the openSUSE partition to general use. Incidentally, it is not recommended to install openSUSE on a single partition because it normally has three, /, swap and /home. It can share swap but, unless you know what you are doing, you should normally set up / and /home. Also Ubuntu uses Grub2 but openSUSE uses legacy Grub; so that is probably the source of your problems.
If you start-up your PC with the Ubuntu disk in it, you should be able
to select install from the menu.
During the install process, you will be able to opt to overwrite the
partitions you installed openSUSE to, which will remove openSUSE.
Check the media of your Ubuntu DVD.
Have you tried to recover the Windows 7 install? You can find Windows 7 | Install | Repair instructions through Google, possibly boot Windows 7 DVD | Install | Repair Install or something like that.
I hate to write it but if your Ubuntu CD/DVD doesn’t pass the media check or you can’t use it to reinstall then try burning a Knoppix LiveCD. I’ve used it several times to read Windows and other Linux distros when a system doesn’t boot, mostly to verify if the data still exists as desired and to backup data.
Hi John,
Thank you for your reply but my problem is I cannot et anything to load and I am not a command line exponent.
When I go to install/removeI get a Warning in Start Software manager
There is an error in the repository initialization
‘repo-update’ http://download.opensource.org/update/11.3/
[repo-update http://download.opensource.org/update/11.3/]
Repository is not cached
Nothing I put into the cd tray runs all I get is the above
Hi Barry,
Thank you for your reply but my problem is I cannot et anything to load and I am not a command line exponent.
When I go to install/removeI get a Warning in Start Software manager
There is an error in the repository initialization
‘repo-update’ http://download.opensource.org/update/11.3/
[repo-update http://download.opensource.org/update/11.3/]
Repository is not cached
Nothing I put into the cd tray runs all I get is the above
Thank you for your reply but my problem is I cannot et anything to load and I am not a command line exponent.
When I go to install/removeI get a Warning in Start Software manager
There is an error in the repository initialization
‘repo-update’ http://download.opensource.org/update/11.3/
[repo-update http://download.opensource.org/update/11.3/]
Repository is not cached
Nothing I put into the cd tray runs all I get is the above
Its opensuse.org ie not opensource.org
If opensource is what’s written in your DVD then you have a defective DVD/CD.
You can download and burn a CD/DVD copy of PartedMagic from the download pages found at News When you boot Parted Magic you should be able to delete the openSuSe 11.3 partitions, just make sure you know which partition contains the openSuSe 11.3 and do not delete partitions containing Windows or Ubuntu.
Some of the topics in this forum explain how to use Parted Magic to rebuild the grub menu. Search for those or the Ubuntu forum for instructions for fixing your Ubuntu grub menu before or after you’ve deleted the opensuse partitions.
You can also download Gparted LiveCD from the download page found at GParted – Live CD/USB/PXE/HD Gparted can also delete the openSuSe 11.3 partitions.
I suggested using Windows 7 Disk Management, my thinking that working from within Windows would be safest for your Windows installation.
I cannot get on the net so a repo-upate is I think out of the question.
I cannot load either G-Parted or Parted magic.
My thoughts are now to have the hardderive removed and formatted then loaded with Ubuntu and then putting openSUSE with Windows 7 into Virtual box. This way I will have access to all without having to restart each time I wish to switch.
Thank you again for your help I will be much more careful next time I look at OS’s etc.
I am seriously thinking of signing up to the Open University T155 Linux 10 week course then perhaps I will be able to help others instead of tripping up at every twist and turn Linux throws up at me.
If you burned copies of Gparted and Parted Magic from .iso image files and you can’t read them then your DVD or network download is buggy. Except for a virus infected Windows environment, I can’t think of any other reasons why 5 different CD/DVDs and 1 USB drive can’t be read by your system.
If you can get someone to load your hard drive for you, then I’d recommend dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu, and then run openSuSe in a Virtual Box. However, as long as your CD/DVDs and/or network downloads are suspect Virtual Box would be the same problems as installing.
hello! i’ve installed open suse about 2 weeks ago, and i liked it at the begining, but, along the way i bumped into some problems, and decided to go back to my old distro, linux mint. the problem is that the grub doesn’t boot my live usb. the first time i installed mint i did it with the same bootable usb stick, and i think that the open suse boot loader doesn’t aloud the computer to boot from the usb. i tried adding in the boot loader from yast an entry for the live usb, but i haven’t succeded yet.