Installation problems for openSUSE 11

English Install/Boot/Login
#1

Hi everyone,

first of all I would like to apologise if the problem I am about to post has already been posted by someone else and has been resolved. I have searched the forums and couln’t find any resolution for the problem I am experiencing and hence this post.

I have never used SUSE before and thought I would give it a try. I downloaded openSUSE-11.0-DVD-i386.iso, formatted my hard hardrive and set about doing a fresh install on my laptop (Intel Celeron).

The istallation wizard takes me through the language selection screen and I agree with the ‘term & conditions’ and click next. I am now on the ‘System Probing’ screen. All the components are checked successfully and the wizard comes to ‘initialise package manager’. After about completing 10%, I get a screen which says,

YsAT2

Unable to create repository from URL ‘cd:///?devices=/dev/sr0’

Details:
Valid metadata not found at specified URL(s)

History:

  • can’t copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/suse/setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV to /var/cache/zypp/raw/openSUSE-DVD 11.0vVML4x
  • can’t provide /suse/setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV: Can’t copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/suse/setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV to /var/cache/zypp/raw/openSUSE-DVD 11.0vVML4x

Try again?

I have verified the ISO and the checksum compared with the one provided on your website.

Can someone please help.

Thanks.
VJ

#2

What is your hardware, including ram, and which iso did you use, the combined install/livecd? There may be an issue with insufficient space to unpack the archives. OpenSuSE 11.0 livecd version requires significant ram, as in more than 512MB.

I would suggest downloading the network install iso and trying that,Released Version - openSUSE . That should work if you have a speedy network, but will take longer.

#3

Hi everyone,

I have been able to resolve this by burning the ISO image onto a DVD-R disk, as opposed to DVD+R before.

I am not sure why this would be an issue at all. But I am very happy that I can now go ahead and install suse.

Thanks.
VJ