Installing in VMware on OSX

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i recently tried to install OpenSuse 64bit on VMware fusion in OSX 10.5. I am using an Intel Core2duo Macbook.

During the “system probing” part of installation it reaches Initialize package manager and i recieve this error:

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/media.1/media to /var/cache/zypp/raw/RepositorymLmSkr
-Can’t provide /media.1/media : Can’t copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/media.1/media to /var/cache/zypp/raw/RepositorymLmSkr

Try Again?

If i click no, it obviously aborts the installation, if i click yes a screen then asks me to type the repository name and click if it is cd or dvd media.

i’m pretty confused as i am very new to linux.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

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It’s trying to read the installation ISO using the CDR disk device /dev/sr0. It is not finding the “media.1/media” file which should be present on an installation disk.

Mounting an instatllation ISO I see :

ls /srv/openSUSE/openSUSE-11.1-DVD-i586
ARCHIVES.gz content.asc gpg-pubkey-7e2e3b05-4816488f.asc
ChangeLog content.key gpg-pubkey-9c800aca-481f343a.asc
GPLv2.txt control.xml gpg-pubkey-a1912208-446a0899.asc
GPLv3.txt directory.yast images
INDEX.gz docu license.tar.gz
README dosutils ls-lR.gz
README.DOS gpg-pubkey-0dfb3188-41ed929b.asc media.1
SuSEgo.ico gpg-pubkey-307e3d54-481f30aa.asc openSUSE11_1_LOCAL.exe
autorun.inf gpg-pubkey-3d25d3d9-36e12d04.asc openSUSE11_1_NET.exe
boot gpg-pubkey-3dbdc284-49144c3f.asc pubring.gpg
content gpg-pubkey-56b4177a-47965b33.asc suse
fir:~ # ls /srv/openSUSE/openSUSE-11.1-DVD-i586/media.1/
build directory.yast media products products.asc products.ke

Do you? Is the ISO file mounted at all? Perhaps there’s a Vmware CDR driver issue, which lets you boot from the CD, but then not read it properly after mounting in userland.

I read OSX was still 32bit kernel, with 64bit userland, so am not sure 64bit OS work under Vmware in that situation, but I guess with micro-kernel may have advantages in this situation. ]

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i have actually tried this installation by mounting the iso file in vmware, and by burning the iso file to dvd and mounting the dvd. all of those files are present when the iso file is mounted here as well, specifically the media.1 folder.

as for the 64 bit, i installed ubuntu 64, and there were no issues.

when i selected the opensuse file i wished to download from their website they included intel core 2 processors as being compatable with the 64 bit version of 11.1.

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and actually now, with a little help from your reply and some thought, when it asked me for the repository name i typed in media.1/media and selected dvd rom.

it then asks me to insert the opensuse 11.1 cd 1

when i select continue (the only opensuse 11.1 disk i have already inserted) it gives me a similar error message :

Unable to create repository
from URL ‘dvd:///’.

Details
|] Valid metadata not found at specified URL(s)
History:
-Cant copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/media to /var/cache/zypp/raw/RepositoryDOjaxy
-Can’t provide /media.1/media : Cant copy /var/adm/mount/AP_0x00000001/media to /var/cache/zypp/raw/RepositoryDOjaxy

Try again?

essentially back to square one, but with a different dialogue box and message