I donwloaded openSuse 10.3 64bit DVD version a couple months ago. I used a download accelerator which downloaded from multiple mirrors at an average of 780kb/s. A mistake I will never make again. The MD5 checksums do not match. When installing the following packages failed to install due to integrity check failure:
Yast2 Control Center (I think it came up twice)
Yast2 Printer
Yast2 Country
Yast2 storage.lib
After the installer reboots the PC (for the first time) it does not ask for any username/password info, and just completely skips any set up. It then continues to the login screen.
I would like to know if there is any possible way that I could download the above packages without having to redownload the whole 4GB.
I would also like to know what the default admin username and password is, so I can attempt to use the suse without the above packages.
If there is any additional info you would like to know, ask for it with a description on how/where I can find it. If you are gonna suggest I use any terminal commands please be specific on what I should type and when, Im still new to linux.
Forgive me for my wall of text.
I appreciate any help in advance.
I am sorry to say, but the best way will be to install from a fault free DVD to avoid issues. Did you able to log in at all? The default superuser mode is “su” and the password is something you set during the installation process. You can try leaving the password space blank. Let us know.
Just as suggested in the previous post by firozehh, playing with install sources having scrambled md5 hashes is a risky bussines. You will never be sure what other subsystems in your install could have been installed wrongly or incompletely.
If you want to save time and avoid dowloading the DVD again, my first suggestion would be install from the scratch from the network using the open suse repositories via the minimun network work. It will only take you a few minutes to download.
Find details about install from the network here: INSTALL Internet - openSUSE
Now, one alternate thing you can try is booting is rescue mode. For that you won´t need any root account. Once there, mount the root partition, chroot to it, and carefully edit the /etc/password and /etc/shadow files to reset whatever old password associated to the root account.
After that, change the root password via the passwd command and quit the chroot environment.
From that point on, reboot in runlevel 3, configure your network, configure your on-line repositories with yast and try to upgrade the whole system via the yast software module.
Then, look for those missed software packages.
If that fails, try to downlad them manually and upgrade or freshen them manually using rpm command.
You can see…not difficult, but quite a task.
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> Hi,
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> One mistake I made in my previous post:
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> “For that you won´t need any root account”.
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> I meant “For that you won´t need any root account password”
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> By the way, the size of the network mini CD is only 71MB.
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> Regards.
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Wanted to chime in and second the ‘NET’ install CD. Again, it’s 71MB… a
quick download generally… be sure to check the md5sum as always.
Burn it to a CD, insert in the system, boot it up. You can pretty much just
press ENTER and watch it go.
Always been amazing to me to watch the entire system come through the
internet connection all from this (relatively) tiny 71 Meg disk. The 10.3
installer worked very well for me many times. Even more so with the 11.0
version, since the full installer is a DVD and several of my machines haven’t
a DVD reader installed.
As a caveat, the 11.0 NET installer seems to have a small bug during the
second phase as it is finishing the downloads and installation… it’ll come
up and say “xxxx failed download, can’t resolve …” or something like that.
It’s a network error, basically saying that it can’t connect. Seems the
installer shuts down the network to finalize the settings… and then forgets
to turn it back on!!
To fix it, press CTRL-ALT-F2, type:
rcnetwork restart
then CTRL-ALT-F7, wait a moment to let the network settings settle in, then
click on ‘retry’. This has worked every time for me and is a minor glitch.
Other than that, I can’t complain at all about the NET installer.
Thanks guys, you are quick. I will try find commands on how to use the chroot environment. As I said Im still new.
I thought I made it clear that I didnt get to set up anything after it started installing the packages. It seemed to skip that part of the installation, entirely.
I will have a look at at the 71meg internet install disk, but its not the download of the disk that worries me, its the amount of data I am gonna clock up against my cap that I am worried about.
I will try fix this again in the morning. I do have one last question, I have seemed to install 2 coppies of suse on my HDD. Have any suggestions on getting it to delete and overwrite one of these root partitions. If all else fails I will use the ubuntu live CD partition manager. (EDIT: and hope I guess the correct partition)
As carboncore has already suggested and I agree with him that the installation should be from the scratch. To avoid unnecessary issues I am also against multiple copies of SUSE.