I formatted my old laptop’s HDD completely to install openSUSE with a clean slate plus it couldn’t handle XP anymore.
I burnt a liveCD and NET CD but none of them boot (not at all) and since its my first experience with Linux i am puzzled.
i have searched forums but cant find an answer.
i get this message that operating system could not found (well there is none) and it suppose to boot from the CD i triple checked the boot priority i burnt extra CD’s but nothing seem to work.
On 05/04/2010 02:56 PM, whych wrote:
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> Obviuos things to check are:
> Do the cds boot from another pc? If yes, check the bios is set to boot
> from cd.
> Did you check the checksums?
if you use your browser, or text editor to look at the contents of the
CD you burned, do you see folders and files of just one
file…probably ending in .iso??
1- yes I have set the boot to CD
2- Yes I tries it on other windows sys i had which has XP installed and it booted, so the CD is fine.
3- The ram is 512 and HDD is 60 GB Intel
and also, i did burn the CDS according to the instructions given for MAC OSX and tried it o another windows system and it booted, but not on my laptop.
also, whenever i insert my windows XP cd in the laptop it boots, so the hardware works okay.
Is your Windows XP CD a pressed CD? When drives get old they have problems reading burnt CDs. Can you boot any other burnt CD, some other Linux distro, even another OS?
If you look at the download page: Software.openSUSE.org
scroll down to Verify your download (optional, for experts) and follow the links.
Basically, the checksum verifies that the data you have received is the same as (true copy of) the original.
As another check, check that the laptop cd drive will in fact read the make/type of disc you are burning.
Perhaps tell us what pc you are trying to install to.
after many hours of dismantling my old laptop and poking out every single key on the keyboard, and dusting everything, and writing three DVD’s i managed to install openSUSE :D, now iam trying to figure out why Yast/software management is giving me this error " No such client module sw_single", cause i need flash BAD
This sounds like you have an incomplete install with errors. Did you just ignore package install errors? They will cause problems later.
Generally Ubuntu comes on CD whereas you are trying to install an openSUSE DVD. So it sounds like your drive has problems reading DVDs. Perhaps you should install from the LiveCDs, which despite the name, has an “install without going live” option.
