Install Leap for real

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Hi,

After having used Leap in a VM for a few weeks I now decided to install it for real. Thing is: it doesn’t work.
I have copied the iso file (unpacked, mind you) to a USB stick and I have burned it to a CD (small version 85MB).
In both cases when I come to the partitioner and I create a partition for / I get a Error: This mount point is already in use. Select a different one.
It turns out there are 3 partitions on the USB stick (and on the CD) already: /, swap and /home. I don’t want them there, I want them on my harddisks.
How to do that?
I must be doing something wrong but I don’t see it. Please help.

Thank you.

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Just point the installer to the HD It apparently wants to install to your USB but this easy to override. Just take control. At the partition scheme window be sure things are as you want. If not change them.

ISO don’t need nor should they be unpacked they are not zip files. Just burn a binary image to your install media

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So, I should place the iso file to my install media and boot the PC with that? Sorry, doesn’t do that. Nothing happens since the PC can not boot from the iso file.
Come one people, please help me. How do I install Leap on my computer?
What do I put on my install media: the iso file, or the contents of the file? When I do the iso file nothing happens at boot, when I do the contents of the file I get 3 partitions (/, swap and /home) which I can not set in the partition scheme during install because they are used already.

Please help me. My computer is dead now. Help me to bring him back to life.

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Use SUSE Studio Imagewriter to to write the .iso file to a USB stick. This is a completely different process from copying the .iso file to the stick.

What .iso file do you have? Live or installation?
Howard

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Thank you for your answer.
I did download both the 4.7GB full disk as well as the 85MB net installer.
In both cases I get the same result: I have partitions on my USB stick (/, /home and swap) which I therefore can not add to my hard disks in the expert partitioner.
I now removed them from the stick and added them to my hard disk the way I want it to be. Installation is on the way, as it was last night as well. I really hope I can boot after the install, something which did not happen last night.

I used Linux Mint image writer to put the installation software on the disk since at the moment I don’t have Opensuse running. Hope that is okay too.

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Well, it did boot but not as I was hoping. After watching a green screen with 3 flashing LED’s for a very long time I was greeted by the Emergency Mode where I could log-in as root and type

journalctl -xb

It gives me a very long list of items. At lines 930 things turn on red:

 systemd-remount-fs[634]: /bin/mount for / exited with exit status 1

after a white line saying:

systemd-remount-fs[634]: mount can't find UUID=12345

Later on in the list I get all sorts of dependencies errors and at the very end it says:

Failed to open pack file: Read-only file system

What is going on here? What do I do wrong?
Can somebody please tell me step-by-step what I need to do to make it work? If I don’t get any help I am forced to go back to LinuxMint since that does work. I know it is not a punishment, Mint is great system which I have used for years, but I like to try something new now and I chose Leap to be the new system.

Please help. Thank you.

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Exactly how are your copying the ISO to the install media?

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Hello gogalthorp and once again thank you for your answer.
Since I did not have a working OpenSuse I could not use the OpenSuse imagewriter to get the installer onto the USB stick. I did use the image writer which is part of LinuxMint.
When reading on the problem on the internet I also used the dd command. Nothing worked as I expected.
On the USB stick I get 3 directories inside a expanded directory. These 3 are mounted as /, /home and swap.
When I install Leap and I reach the part where I have to chose the partitioning scheme I can not point /, /home and swap to directories on my hard disks since they already exist on the USB stick. This strikes me as something very strange. Is it normal to have these directories on the stick as well?

I used both the full DVD iso (4.3GB) as the Net installer (85MB). Didn’t make any difference.

At the moment I am copying my data from the NAS to my hard disks after having installed LinuxMint again. The computer is working again, although not with the OS I wanted to have. If you can give me detailed instructions on how to install Leap then I would be very grateful since I still hope I will master it. Leap looks very good, I have used it now for a few weeks in a VM and of course there were some things but thanks to the forum, including you, these problems were solved. I also hope this big one will be solved too, so I can use Leap as my main OS.

Thanks again.

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Well it is not normal for the installer to try to install to the install media but it does happen depending on how the BIOS sees things. Happened to me once a few versions back.

Are you installing in EFI or legacy/MBR mode?

I suspect a video problem so what video card/chip?

Also is the system new and have one the new Intel skylake processors?

There is really not much special you need to do just be sure that the partition scheme is what you expect other then that is just follow your nose.

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I have:

System:    Host: jan-desktop Kernel: 3.19.0-32-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 17.3 RosaMachine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx Bios: American Megatrends v: 2601 date: 03/24/2015
CPU:       Octa core AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core (-MCP-) cache: 16384 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 4400 MHz 1: 1400 MHz 2: 2800 MHz 3: 2100 MHz 4: 2800 MHz 5: 2800 MHz 6: 1400 MHz
           7: 2100 MHz 8: 1400 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GK104 [GeForce GTX 760]
           Display Server: X.org 1.17.1 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
           tty size: 136x38 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA GK104 HDMI Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA v: k3.19.0-32-generic
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2256.5GB (11.1% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: ADATA_SP900 size: 128.0GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: ADATA_SP900 size: 128.0GB ID-3: /dev/sdc model: ST1000DM003 size: 1000.2GB
           ID-4: /dev/sdd model: ST1000DM003 size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 32G used: 6.3G (21%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/md2
           ID-2: /boot size: 243M used: 48M (21%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-3: /home size: 183G used: 8.5G (5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/md4
           ID-4: swap-1 size: 21.48GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/md3
RAID:      Device-1: /dev/md11 - active raid: 0 components: online: sdd1 sdc1
           Device-2: /dev/md12 - active raid: 0 components: online: sdd2 sdc2
           Device-3: /dev/md3 - active raid: 0 components: online: sda3 sdb3
           Device-4: /dev/md2 - active raid: 0 components: online: sdb2 sda2
           Device-5: /dev/md4 - active raid: 0 components: online: sda4 sdb4
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 23.9C mobo: N/A gpu: 32C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 274 Uptime: 2:11 Memory: 2661.8/15945.3MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.28

The partitioning scheme is the same as what I want with Leap, I use RAID 0 for extra speed, and yes I make backups on a regular basis.
I don’t use EFI.

I have installed Linux systems for the last 8 years and never had these problems. I really don’t understand why I get the 3 directories on the stick when I use the stick in the desktop.

Just to be sure could you tell me exactly how to do this in OpenSuse? As I said I want to use Leap, but I do need a working computer, which I have now with Mint as OS. Does it make any difference which ISO I use (DVD or NET), can I use USB3.0 when using the USB stick (I read something on the internet this is not possible but it was an older page so things could have changed by now.).
Could you do me a big favor and create an install medium. Then show the contents of it in the file-manager and send a picture of that with your next answer? That way I can compare your install medium with mine.
You would be helping me so much.

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OK RAID is always a problem What sort of RAID? software/FAKE/true hardware?

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I use mdadm so I guess it is called software RAID. Never had problems with other Linux’s.

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This is the contents of a burned DVD from the full DVD version of the ISO file:

http://myalbum.com/photo/chQrQVMn7kNB/720.jpg

Is this what I am supposed to have to start installing? If so, and things still don’t go as they should, the fault is in my desktop computer so I have to start searching there.

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If the installer runs and installs then it is right. If the installer does not boot or fails with error then you did it wrong
Also always be sure of the check sums of the iso but I think it is OK almost certain the problem is RAID. Did you select to use RAID in the installer?

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Yes, I did use the RAID arrays to install:
sda2 and sdb2: md2 for /
sda3 and sdb3: md3 for swap
sda4 and sdb4: md4 for /home
sdc1 and sdd1: md 11 for /Data
sdc2 and sdd2: md12 for /Music

This is a setup I have used for a long time already with several different distributions.

At the moment I am installing Leap again, this time from a DVD. I figured this was the only possibility I did not use: the 4.3GB ISO to a DVD. It is installing at 91% now, so a little more and it’s done.
Last night I did use a CD with the 85 MB NET version but that didn’t work either. I so hope this time I nailed it.

I just wait a moment, it is at 97% now.

No, again I end up in emergency mode. I guess this is not working for me.
Maybe I should stick with Mint since that is working great on my computer.
Thank you for all the help you have given me. I know I took a lot of your time, sorry for that.

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In my case it’s even worse.
I have also tried with both, ISOs Netinstall and DVD, checked sha256 (ok), dd into a flash drive (ok) but … nothing!
I’ve even tried UEFI and compatibility mode but it didn’t even get to the first installation screen.
Boot hangs when the green progress bar at the bottom is about at 75%.
In UEFI mode it hangs after it prompts “pci.2: get sysfs pci data”

My notebook is a HP Envy 15 - 16GB Ram - 1TB Hd.

Any suggestion?

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Sorry, I can’t help you. I’m having problems by myself, and more than I chew.
I’m going back to LinuxMint and will forget OpenSuse, which is a shame cause I enjoyed working with it when I had it in a virtual machine.
I have no idea why I can’t install it now: it just doesn’t work.

So, thank you for all the help I got here, it was not supposed to be.

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@x3m3
Unbootable flash drives with OpenSUSE images seem a never ending story… but burning the .iso with a Linux application to a physical DVD-R(W) should work for NetInstall, full install DVD and also LiveDVDs where available. Better do a full-erase if the DVD-RW is not blank.
Please be aware that Windows burners are not guaranteed to work with OpenSUSE images.

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Thanks for your reply.
I’ve forced DVD-RW full deletion then burned .ISO file using K3b. It did not work either.
Installation hangs after clicking next button in the licence agreement screen (should be network setup screen).
I’m not going to give up, I’ll give it another try figuring out what went wrong but at the moment I have no idea.

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The installer hangs? Sounds like a RAM limitation, if possible, try a CLI install, I’m not sure how to get to that, but I’m sure someone here knows a lot more about that that I do. How much RAM do you have? I think the lowest that will work is about a gig or so.