Ok. I have a brand-new openSUSE 11.0 32-bit boot disk, and I’m trying to dual-boot it with Windows Vista. I have partitioned my drive and now have about 110GB in “Unallocated Memory”, and to my knowledge I should be good to go. Once booting with the disk and I choose “Installation”, everything goes fine until it finally freezes. I’ve written down the last few commands shown during installation:
Activating usb devices… ok
Generic Multi-Card
drivers: usb_storage*
Atheros AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI express Adapter
drivers: ath5k
loading ath5k…
Then it stops.
I desperately want to install this software and nothing online seems to help. You’re help is greatly appreciated
Can you tell us a bit more about the machine? Is it a laptop?
If not, what happens if you take out the wireless card (USB?)
What do you mean by brand-new openSUSE 32-bit boot disk? We’re already at 11.1 for a while. But even though the disk might be brand-new, it doesn’t mean it’s 100% proof.
A lot of this computer lingo is complete jibberish to me, you’re talking to openNEWB. But no, I didn’t check the MD5 checksum. What would help is telling me what steps I need to go through to have dual boot OS’s, and I can see which ones I haven’t done. Does anything else seem unorthodox with this situation?
This is a Compaq Presario CQ60 Laptop. I tried to burn the Ubuntu iso image a long time ago, but when it started to take up two CD’s I called it quits. I purchased a magazine that had the 32-bit version of openSUSE and a trial version of 64-bit. I thought that would be much easier on my head than going through that iso image dogma again.
Iso or not, I have booted from this disk and tried to install and that is what happens. I’m not using a wireless card to my knowledge
Nothing seems un-orthodox to be honest…You may want to read a little more on the specific of dual booting in general … just so you know … but it would be best if you downloaded the latest version which is 11.1 … And there is no problem doing the install how you did with regards to leaving free disk space to install linux on … that does make it easy on the install from a newb perspective in my honest opinion … but your problem sounds more like an issue with the data that was burned to the desk … the MD5 checksum that you run to validate the desk checks to insure all the correct data is there and that there is nothing missing …
I would, but I have walked through fire with this 11.0 CD and want to see this to the end. I don’t mind being .1 version behind lol. Since the partition I made says “Unallocated Memory” does that mean it is not set up for another OS?
I really doubt it’s a problem of the data that was burned to the disk, or that something isn’t burned onto it, because I -bought- it. Unless there are millions of other faulty copies out there as well…
I will look more into dual-booting, maybe that will educate me a little more about what I am doing. But I’m not trying to get into computer science lol, I need this linux distro for my workplace
Please do yourself a favor and download a Live CD. Thing is you must not burn the iso as a file on a data CD, you must burn the image to CD with an option like that in your burning program.
The quality of disks delivered with magazines is often horrible.
Otherwise ask somebody around you to help you burn an iso to CD or DVD. The Live CD allows you to run openSUSE without touching your Windows install
Alrighty then I will… But I doubt the error lies with the quality of the CD. Everything worked fine until it recognized my PCI express adapter. Well thanks for your help guys, I’ll try to resolve it another way
