Unable to install OpenSuse for the first time

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Hello all, I’ve been trying to install OpenSuse on my PC, but I am having problems with it. I have Windows 7 and I want to change it into linux because it works too slow. I downloaded the .iso file from software.opensuse.org (full DVD- direct download). I burnt the .iso file with Astroburn lite in a DVD and everything was ok until then. I rebooted, changed my bios so it would boot first from the dvd and when it says: ->System Analysis: Initialize software manger, an error pops up:

“YaST2:
Unable to create repository from URL:
‘cd:/?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TSSTcorp_CDDVDW_TS-L633C_R7256GAZ706576’
Details:
Unknown error reading from ‘cd:///%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%00?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TSSTcorp_CDDVDW_TS-L633C_R7256GAZ706576’.
History:
-Encoded string contains a NUL byte.
Try again? Yes No”
If I click No, the same error appears again, if I click Yes then another window pops up saying:
"YaST2:
CD or DVD Media
Repository name:

  • CD-ROM
  • DVD

OK Cancel"
So, I click OK and then it says: Insert CD1 of Open Suse. I don’t know what it’s referring to. So, I finish the whole installation and it says ‘Failed to initialize the software repositories. Aborting the installation.’

I then decided to click on Check Installation Media and when the process finishes: “Checksum wrong. This DVD is broken.”
How can I solve this? Should I burn the DVD again at a lower speed or I have to download the .iso file again?.

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Hi!

You can check yourself if you would need to download the image again.

In http://http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/iso/
there are files like ‘openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso.md5’
which are text files containing a checksum.

So if you open a terminal, and state ‘md5sum openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso’
(that iso is an example),
an md5 checksum will be calculated.

If that checksum (or the output of md5sum) is the same as that in
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/iso/openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso.md5
(in this example)
then your download is good.

In that case you may only need to burn a DVD at the lowest speed possible,
or perhaps write it to an USB memory stick.

Good luck
Mike

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Hi again. I burnt another DVD at a lower speed and everything worked fine! :slight_smile: Thanks for your reply.

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OK, perhaps I wasn’t that clearly stated.

Let me try again:

Go to the folder where your .iso-image is
(let’s assume this iso image is the file ‘openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso’ in that folder).

Open a terminal
(using dolphin of KDE this is very easy: click on the terminal symbol in the upper part of the dolphin window,
and you will get a terminal with the current folder being the same as the one displayed in your dolphin window -
otherwise you will have to navigate to that folder by ‘cd’ commands at the command line).

Now, in the terminal, enter

md5sum openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso

if ‘openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso’ was your iso-image stored in that folder of your hard disk,
in order to get the md5 checksum that you then can compare to the checksum given on the openSUSE servers/its mirrors.

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Glad you succeeded :wink:

6

Ha ha ha …

Don’t you just love this cross-posting stuff? lol!

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Hi Gerry,

no, I don’t like cross-posting. Because usually it means a waste of time.

When it happens, then OK, there’s hardly a thing to do about it.