how can i degrade 11.1 to 10.3

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#1

I thought it was going to be neat to have a new opperating system. but i was wrong.
It has totally messed up my computer, i can no longer put cd’s into my drive, it wont pick them up. I have no internet on my laptop, i have to use my uncles. What can i do, i need to use my laptop for homework purposes.
Or is there a way to totally get rid of opensuse to allow me to put cd’s in it.

#2

Do you mean it doesn’t read cd’s or the cd tray doesn’t work?

#3

wont read the cd, even when i put a disk in like an iso it wont pop up, it continues with the opensuse 11.1

#4

Is the kde4 or Gnome

Have you looked in /media when a cd is in the drive?

#5

You mean you cannot even boot from a CD/DVD ??

Have you tried this way:

  • put cd in drive
  • shutdown and poweroff the laptop.
  • wait a minute
  • switch on the laptop
    At this point you may check the BIOS settings to make sure that the CD/DVD drive is seen by the BIOS -and- that it is the first boot device.

If the CD/DVD drive isn’t seen by the BIOS anymore, then, by pure chance, it probably died during the time you had 11.1 installed. A hardware problem.

If the CD/DVD drive is indeed seen by the BIOS -and- is the first boot device -and- the laptop still does not boot from it, then please describe exactly what happens.

P.S.: Getting totally rid of OpenSuse 11.1 is most likely possible but can be a bit tricky, depending on whether you want to keep some data, e.g. from the suse partition, from another linux partition, from a windows partition, … Resetting a HD to a factory-new state is quite easy but of course, you would loose ALL data on that HD without a chance to get anything back. Just wanted to mention it.

#6

i’ve tried that and i see the cd/dvd drive. Its weird because if i go to my storage media i see my disk right in there. the disk i have is bootable too. I have the XFCE verson.

#7

If you still want out of 11.1
You best hope is a re-install of 10.3 and keep /home

But it would not be the way I would go. For sure - there has to be a solution to this. And it’s probably less complicated than you imagine.

Can I suggest you create a NEW user account. And see how things behave.

#8

Just to be sure that I understand:

  • The bios says that the cd/dvd drive is there
  • when OpenSuse 11.1 is running, you can put the CD in and you can access it.
  • but you cannot boot from it, even though it is bootable.

Weird, indeed. What about the suse cd, the one you used to install this cursed system - can you boot from that one? And can you boot from this CD on any other PC?

There still might be something wrong with cd/dvd drive. Or the bios… Like, what’s the boot device order?
(I’ve never heard of any system that can “survive” a cold restart of a PC.)

Anyway, without internet and without being able to boot from a CD you are pretty much out of luck. At least one of these is needed to make changes to a system, be it a Linux or Windows. I don’t have more ideas about how to solve that, sorry.