Install Fail

Hi

I got my openSUSE 11.0 DVD from the linux magazine, I tried to install the first 2 times, but it failed. So i built a new computer and i tried instaling it on there, first 2 times it failed, then i installed ubuntu, cleaned the suse disc and tried it again and it worked, after i couldn’t log in anymore after about 2weeks of using opensuse, i formatted and tried to install it again, now it doesn’t want to install again. It says something about " packagename.rpm package not found. No such package." with alot of the packages, but what i don’t understand is the fact that my dvd isn’t scratched or anything. How can the packages suddenly disappear from the dvd?

Can anybody help me with this error? Any suggestions?

Bad DVD, bad drive…

DVDs from magazines are often complete crap.

  • download official CD/DVD-images from openSUSE.org

  • check ISO before burning (md5sum)

  • burn ISO slowly and check medium before installing (Installer offers you this option, at least the text-based installer does)

  • check your RAM (memtest, at least 20 cycles), sometimes broken RAM gives strange installation problems

That cannot be true because the drive is new and works perfectly fine, it installed it before & the DVD also installed a few times before it started givig this problem. It’s just KDE 4 that doesn’t want to install, KDE 3.5 & Gnome installs fine. Just can’t get into GUI with KDE 3.5. I can’t download that much. The file is too big.

It work_ed_ fine and then began to give problems reproducibly, yeah, this is really strong prove that everything is absolutely ok :sarcastic:

Where’s the problem?

Install with minimal or no GUI and install KDE4 later via Internet.

You’re really funny, a few lines above KDE 3.5 and GNOME “installed fine”, if that is “fine”, I don’t wanna know, what yo call “a disaster” then.

BTW:

I am reading/posting in fora for several years now, and it never “could be true” that there was a problem with hardware or medium, when somebody experienced similiar/the same problems.

And you know what?

Interestingly enough it nearly always was true, so check your hardware/installation media first.