So I downloaded the live CD iso, and burned the iso onto a cd through PowerISO. Pop the cd in, restarted the computer. I can see the main menu where you can choose from OpenSUSE 11, failsafe-openSUSE, memorycheck, harddrive, and mediacheck. Not matter which one I select, the system will go to the loading screen with the SUSE icon and a loading bar under it. My problem is that the loading bar never moves forward. It stays in the same place for 5 mins, the CD is spinning but at a low speed. I first tried it on a MAC, then on a Dell, both have the same problem.
I wonder if someone can help me
Since you had the problem on more than one machine, it sounds like a media problem . . .
Verify the integrity of the .iso file that you downloaded with the md5sum. The md5sums are on the download page. Some burners will calculate the md5sum and display that for you; can’t say about PowerISO specifically. But there are Windows utilities to do such a check.
Then verify the burn was truly successful. Some burners have a “verify” option (this is not the same as just “burned OK”; it goes back over the tracks and verifies the writes against the source file). And then the “media check” option should be used on the CD menu.
Once sure the media is perfectly OK, if the problem re-occurs, then boot again from the CD and after a moment hit the Escape key. This will drop the graphical screen to text mode. You will see what the kernel is doing, and what is stopping it. You can do that now without verifying the media, but understand that bad media can induce all sorts of strange errors, so whatever you see will not necessarily be valid and quite possibly could be misleading.
Please check the md5sum of the iso file you burned, against the md5sum posted on the openSUSE web site. Also, please confirm you burned at the slowest speed your burner would allow, on the best quality CD media you could lay your hands on.
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