Has anyone done/ doing installation of openSUSE 11.2 M6 (Milestone 6) from the DVD ? As I read somewhere that the installer has a bug and asks for another CD/DVD.
(I am presently downloading the DVD ISO from Index of /pub/opensuse/distribution/11.2-Milestone6/iso and hence would like to know).
I just finished installing M6 DVD x86-64 with no problems.
If i’m not wrong then what has been uploaded are the corrected iso images with working installers.
Is it good for normal desktop use ? Any hardware or dependency problems ?
Its a milestone release. It should NOT be used for normal desktop use.
Its for testing and writing bug reports.
Hi from rushman,
I have not been able to install m6.
The installer will bomb out if i do not click down hard disk
to installer as soon as I see it.
I have down downloaded 3 DVD install iso’s, 2 via torrent
and this morning ftp which was very quick.
The install goes well, but bombs out on kernal deps.(3 times)
today I used a new disk. milestone 5 installed an run OK on this computor
I am not sure that the install sees the internet.
Hope this is of use to you.
I am giveing up on 6 and will see if I can find 5 to download.
regards Jim
rushman wrote:
> Hope this is of use to you.
> I am giveing up on 6 and will see if I can find 5 to download.
>
M6 has installed from DVD on two machines with no dependency issues. I could
not boot an M5 system after installation from DVD. Only successful
installation of M5 was via update of M4.
Unfortunately, on one system, a load of updates this morning screwed GRUB so
I had to re-install - again successfully.
–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
“I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.”
Hi cloddy,
It seems I have 2 problems
1 is I was running an overclocked AMD quad core, If I reduce speed I can install the live Cd.
however it cannot update,it is looking for media.1/media in the
non oss repo.
the strange thing is 11.1 will install when the CPU is overclocked.
it was thought that the repo was not up yet but I cannot find
anyone else with this problem.
rushman
I have been having ongoing DVD installation problems with the 11.x series, on my HP dv9000z laptop. These are documented in bz430284.
Today, I was able to install M6 using the Live CD, but with two problems which I gather from comments on the opensuse-testing mailing list, have already been seen and, hopefully, reported in Bugzilla:
1.) Checksum error when attempting to verify the correctness of the burned image, despite k3b’s claim that it burned correctly.
2.) Inability to access the media/media.1 file(s) or whatever from repo-oss (or wherever) - I didn’t jot down the details.
I installed using ext3 (not ext4 - I want to be able to look at things from my other Linux installations) onto a partition on my USB external hard drive. It boots nicely and seems to behave correctly, although I haven’t done any extensive post-installation set-up on it yet.
Hi N1HO,
Well I am now up todate, in the end it
was easy.I added the CD nonoss addon disk
to the DVD install it contains the media1/media files.
I now have an updated m6
now lets see if it works.
regards jim
rushman wrote:
>
> Hi cloddy,
>
> It seems I have 2 problems
>
> 1 is I was running an overclocked AMD quad core, If I reduce speed I
> can install the live Cd.
> however it cannot update,it is looking for media.1/media in the
> non oss repo.
>
I’ve disabled the OSS and non-OSS 11.2 repos as they don’t seem to exist
yet. In order to update the system, I’ve added the following repos -
KDE 4.3:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_Factory/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_Factory/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_Factory/
Gnome:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Factory/
Open Office:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/UNSTABLE/openSUSE_Factory/
OSS/non-OSS:
http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/
http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss/
Education:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/openSUSE_Factory/
After a disastrous kernel update yesterday, I’ve also disabled the factory
OSS and non-OSS repos.
The education repo is one I need for GRAMPS3 so you probably won’t need it.
If you do use GRAMPS you’ll also need the 11.1 OSS!
I’m no expert so may have got something wrong here but this configuration
has worked for me.
–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
“I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.”
Thats a lot of repos. I note this is a milestone and beta forum area, so maybe in this case that makes sence, and I would agree with no more updates from OSS/non-OSS.
But IMHO that does not apply to a nominal GM version of openSUSE, as in such an nominal GM version, OSS and Non-OSS are likely to do far less damage than the other repos.
If it were me, for a GM version, I would get what I want off of all the other repos and as soon as I do, I would immediately disable them, and then leave OSS and Non-OSS enabled. When there is an update proposed by OSS and Non-OSS (in a GM openSUSE) I recommend checking to see what the update is, PRIOR to accepting the update. If its a “kernel” or “xorg” update, then ensure one has the latest graphic driver (for an installation using the method coined “the hardway” (even though it is easy)) and ensure I have appropriate webcam, and wireless drivers, PRIOR to updating. Also, always ensure one has a recent backup of one’s /boot/grub/menu.lst and one’s /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
I’ve read of many dozens of users whose GM version of openSUSE has been messed up because of adding repos such as the list noted above. Caution is the operative word here, and a mess up from such repos can be unrecoverable. This is in contrast to any hiccup from OSS and Non-OSS where it almost ALWAYS is recoverable.
For a GM version, I always recommend only 4 repos: OSS, Non-OSS, Update and Packman and I mostly follow that philosophy myself. When I add other repos, after getting the package I want, I immediately remove them (the added repos).
But for a beta/milestone version, I typically have only OSS and Packman enabled, and every update I do with caution. I add other repos only with caution, and I remove them immediately afterward. Typically I don’t accept any updates, as when I test, I want a solid baseline without some obscure package confusing the results of any testing that I might be doing. If one keeps installing applications adhoc, how can ones testing be of any use. No one knows what version of applications that one is testing. Its very very confusing.
oldcpu wrote:
> If it were me, for a GM version, I would get what I want off of all the
> other repos and as soon as I do, I would immediately disable them, and
> then leave OSS and Non-OSS enabled. When there is an update proposed
> by OSS and Non-OSS (in a GM openSUSE) I recommend checking to see what
> the update is, PRIOR to accepting the update. If its a “kernel” or
> “xorg” update, then ensure one has the latest graphic driver (for an
> installation using the method coined “the hardway” (even though it is
> easy)) and ensure I have appropriate webcam, and wireless drivers, PRIOR
> to updating. Also, always ensure one has a recent backup of one’s
> /boot/grub/menu.lst and one’s /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
Thanks particularly for that last tip. If I’d done that, and checked the
boot sequence before rebooting, I might have saved myself some trouble - but
by no means all. All I have to do now is make a note of it so I remember it
–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
“I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.”
Cloddy,
Download Supergrub It makes life so easy
when the grub does not function.
Old Cpu,
thanks for that info.
my media problem was solved by adding the CD OSSADDON disk
to the dvd installation.
now up and running.
It would seem that the dlbe click has gone.
rushman