The KDE live CD image that I downloaded is defective.
That’s great. Just great. What a waste of 700mb of my Internet usage.
Using the right torrent program, you can start a torrent of the same file, then stop the program, copy the broken file across to where it’s downloading to, start it again, and it’ll repair it.
I couldn’t tell you which ones are capable of this, but I’m sure you could google it…
What Confuseling said.
You don’t say in what way it’s defective, does it not pass the MD5 checksum, does it not boot on your computer, does it not run? Also which one, the i686 or the x86_64 one? Without these details we can’t help.
If the image had been faulty you would have heard from lots of people by now. It’s far more likely to be something you missed.
I have verified the md5.
It does not boot. I have tried booting from usb key and CD. With usb key, it errors out before even booting. With the CD, after I get passed the first menu, it hangs.
Tried it on 3 different computers - 2 PCs and a laptop.
I hit ESC to see what outputs were being displayed.
There was a recurring i/o error on line 137 of /etc/initscript
You say you verified the md5sum - was that of the .iso before it was burned.
When you boot the CD - isn’t there a Media Check? Have you run it?
OK. The media was defective. Not sure why it didn’t work on the USB key. That wasn’t defective.
Now I’m reluctant to go on because the formatter apparently wants to format all of my existing partitions. I don’t want to lose data. I just want to blow away the C partition with Windows on it.
Is there a way to do this without losing the data on the other partitions? The warning that came up before the install button was a bit of a worry.
Yes, but you need to understand partitioning.
It’s difficult for us to advise as we have no idea what your current partition set up is?
fdisk -l
will give us that
Select the expert option at the partitioner step, then you can control it however you like.
OK I ran fdisk -l. Here is a photo of the output:
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u122/sixesallround/fdiskl.jpg
It aint pretty, but it is readable, although you may get dizzy. And possibly light-headed.
You have 2 HD’s then both apparently with windows of some kind and additional ntfs partitions.
As @ken_yap said - Use custom partitioning. Hereare some guides I have done, see if they help:
11.2 Install Slideshow with Tips - openSUSE Forums
OK. I have some reading to do.
In the installation summary, it said that for my data partitions it was “setting” mount points. Does that mean it was NOT going to format those drives?
No, mount points and formatting are separate things. A partition is only overwritten if it’s listed as to be formatted. Try again, you may find that what it’s proposing isn’t as scary as you think.
onefootswill wrote:
> OK. I have some reading to do.
>
> In the installation summary, it said that for my data partitions it was
> “setting” mount points. Does that mean it was NOT going to format those
> drives?
>
>
Formatting and mount points are indicated on the custom partitioning
page list. You can also use edit on that page to set/unset/change
formatting and set/remove/change a mount point for the selected partition.
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PeeGee
Asus m/b M2V-MX SE, AMD LE1640, 2GB, openSUSE 11.0 x86-64/XP Home VBox
Asus m/b M2NPV-VM, AMD 64X2 3800+, 2GB, openSUSE 10.3 x86-64/XP Home
dual boot
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11.2 on USB disk
I figured out how to do the custom partitioning thing. It worked and my data has survived. I’m now running a 2009 OpenSuse vs a 2001 XP.
Thanks for all the help!
Good news.
Hang around the forum if you need further help;)
You came a long from your first post and thread title to practically working it out by yourself with a little push in the right direction. You should be proud!