Hey guys me again,
I have for several days tried to install suse from the DVD and it always stalls on 3% 11% configuration, I did read in the other forums about this issue.
I did disable the floppy in bios, but I am not able to disable my wireless broadcom modem in bios only the switch will disable that modem.
I can never get past this install hiccup. I have erased suse 7 times on my laptop and tried a number of advised fixes. No luck. I am a noob, so should I move to another distro because maybe this one is broken?
A little advice.
My system spec is this:
Dell HP Mini 311-1037NR laptop
with 3 gigs of memory and 200g HDD
the rest can be google to see the remaining specs.
Any help would be great, tired of windows and love suse but can’t seems to get it to work. thanks gang.
On 2014-03-23 20:56, cyberglyph wrote:
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> Hey guys me again,
> I have for several days tried to install suse from the DVD
Well, that’s a little vague 
What exactly are you installing?
If it is “suse”, it has to be either SLES or SLED, that is, the
enterprise version with paid support. If that is what you are using,
these are the wrong forums, as these are the openSUSE forums, not the
SUSE forums.
But, you could really be using openSUSE, and being new, you spelt it
wrong. In that case, which openSUSE version? The current one is 13.1,
but you could be using any other version.
And then, there are several DVDs. You could be using the Live Gnome DVD,
the Live KDE DVD, of the full 4.7 GB DVD.
Which one?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
OK,
My apologies for being vague.
I’m using OpenSUSE, not the live CD, I’m using the DVD Install version 4.7GB which is 13.1.
I burned it to a DVD so I could do a clean install. I hope this helps.
P.S.
I’m more partial to the KDE interface. which I can choose from when installing, I don’t care for Gnome.
On 2014-03-23 22:36, cyberglyph wrote:
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> OK,
> My apologies for being vague.
No problem. We solve it by asking
> I’m using OpenSUSE, not the live CD, I’m using the DVD Install version
> 4.7GB which is 13.1.
> I burned it to a DVD so I could do a clean install. I hope this helps.
Yep, it does.
As it is a real DVD, not a usb stick, I suggest you choose the entry in
the boot menu to verify the media.
Let’s start with that.
> P.S.
> I’m more partial to the KDE interface. which I can choose from when
> installing, I don’t care for Gnome.
That’s fine, we all have our preferences. There is also a live KDE
version you can use, but the full DVD is more adjustable.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Alrighty,
I reburned the DVD and verified the burn with the software, then I rebooted and had OpenSUSE 13.1 verify the Media and It came back 100% OK. No problems.
My problem is not in the media its the installation that always bombs. but I’m here for the advice.
Thanks
On 2014-03-23 23:56, cyberglyph wrote:
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> Alrighty,
> I reburned the DVD and verified the burn with the software, then I
> rebooted and had OpenSUSE 13.1 verify the Media and It came back 100%
> OK. No problems.
You did a second burn? Then the first burn failed the check?
> My problem is not in the media its the installation that always bombs.
> but I’m here for the advice.
So the install disk boots, you makes your choices, tell it to install,
it starts, then it “bombs”?
Or you never reach the configuration screens, it bails out much earlier?
In that case, while it is starting the boot process, press the “ESC”
key. The graphical screen should switch to a text display that says each
thing it is trying. Sometimes, the message where it stops can give a
clue to the problem.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Now a days it is good to know if the machine has EFI or olde BIOS.
It always stalls on the Automatic configuration screen. Never finishes that. Stops at 3% top bar and 11% bottom bar. ESC key doesn’t do anything it’s all ready stuck by that time.
Any Ideas what can cause this?
On 2014-03-24 03:26, gogalthorp wrote:
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> Now a days it is good to know if the machine has EFI or olde BIOS.
Right…
I’d hazard it is BIOS, looking at the machine small specs
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On 2014-03-24 03:46, cyberglyph wrote:
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> It always stalls on the Automatic configuration screen. Never finishes
> that. Stops at 3% top bar and 11% bottom bar. ESC key doesn’t do
> anything it’s all ready stuck by that time.
Oh. That’s during install… the percents say nothing at all.
If it is during package install, you can select the tab with “details”
in advance. The first tab is something like a slide show, and the third
might be release notes, if memory serves right.
If it stops at some package, we could perhaps think something, like not
installing that package.
If it is after all packages have been installed, during the
configuration phase, prior to the first boot, we need to know what it is
doing exactly at that point…
> Any Ideas what can cause this?
No…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
It stops working on the Initial configuration phase. All the software seems to be installed just fine. The bios is old bios version not efi. Computer is to old for that.
In most cases, such a freeze is caused by a non-existing floppy drive that the installer tries to access (it’s no freeze in this case, just a looong delay), or by certain wireless devices (mostly Broadcom I think).
So try to disable the floppy drive in the BIOS (especially if you don’t have one connected), and try to disable your wireless devices (via the hardware switch) if you have some for the installation.
I did disable the floppy in the bios. The modem switch may be a broadcom modem issue. I there a way to get past that? Or should I just install via the live CD that seems to work just fine, and I don’t have any issues during the install using this version.
Am I missing anything by using the live cd install versus the DVD 4.7GB version? Or is it just for a clean install?
Thanks
Normally you should have a hardware switch to disable it, or you should be able to do so in the BIOS.
You could also try to specify “brokenmodules=b43” in the kernel command line (i.e. the install DVD’s boot menu), but I’m not sure if that would be sufficient.
Or should I just install via the live CD that seems to work just fine, and I don’t have any issues during the install using this version.
Am I missing anything by using the live cd install versus the DVD 4.7GB version? Or is it just for a clean install?
It should not matter whether you use the LiveCD or the full InstallationDVD.
Except that the LiveCD doesn’t include all the stuff that the full DVD ships, so a lot of packages get additionally installed afterwards, when you first enter YaST.
But they both use the same online repos anyway, so the same set of software is available regardless how you do the install.
So I would say, just stick to the LiveCD installation, if that works.
OK, I went with the USB live install CD and it installed just fine, but now it’s struggling for with updates, not crashing just have to keep retrying updates it’s getting there.
Thanks guys! loving OpenSUSE, can wait for the stability and learning it more!
YEAH!