Update: I've tried installing Kubuntu. Failed. I tried installing it by moving the hard drive to a different computer. Failed. Tried the SuSe 10.2 Beta, failed. New conclusion: the hard drive is messed up. It had been seeming flaky before, different partitioning utilities were taking issue with it. My idea is that the 3GB swap that the Linux installers create is actually used
during the install. Some packages are probably copied to the swap before being installed to the root partition. After this, the installer has trouble reading from the swap, and fails.
I'm no expert, in fact, I'm pretty much a Linux newbie, but this to me, seems the only logical explanation left. As I write, it's attempting to install on an extra hard drive my dad had lying around, and seems to be going just fine.
On 7/28/06, Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
Patrick,
I don't mean to add to your frustration but, I am confused. Having read
your description below along with this recent note, you seem to be saying
that all of the players (computer, DVD disc, DVD drive, etc.) have worked
before but now. In other words, each piece is "known good" or "proven
good" but they aren't working together.
When I get to a point in an investigation where everything is supposedly
good but it still doesn't work, I have to step back and methodically start
again. Maybe you could describe each involved part of the system and why
you know it is good. Then briefly describe each debug step you took up to
now. This may reveal if you missed something along the way.
(Just yesterday a colleague again taught me, for the jillionth time in my
life, that a hard drive works better if you attach the power connector!
Sometimes I have to go back to the basics, maybe we all do.)
Alan
> Well, actually, I've tried two different CD/DVD drives.
>
> On 7/28/06, Eric Shubes <plug@shubes.net
> wrote:
>>
>> Patrick C wrote:
>> > I've recently been trying to install openSuSe 10.1 on my desktop,
>> which
>> > I have installed several times before, but for some reason, when it
>> gets
>> > to the actual install phase, it always chokes. It gives me a message
>> > saying that a package (different package every time) can't be found on
>> > the medium (DVD). If I click retry, YaST then crashes, and it fails.
>> > I've already verified that the DVD is fine. I've installed it on
>> another
>> > system, written the iso from a different DVD writer, etc. I already
>> know
>> > that it's not the IDE cable that's bad, and I don't think the power is
>> > the problem either. I've also switched out the RAM to make sure it
>> > wasn't failing because of bad RAM. It had no operating system at all
>> > until my dad decided to restore Windows from an image just to get
>> > SOMETHING on there. Somehow, I get the feeling that Windows wouldn't
>> > install from a CD either. Oh yeah, we also tried installing it from
>> the
>> > 5 CDs. Right now the computer is sitting on it's side, laid naked on
>> the
>> > desk next to me and I'm sitting here rather angry, using my sister's
>> > computer.
>> >
>>
>> Sounds like you've eliminated everything but the DVD/CD drive.
>>
>> --
>> -Eric 'shubes'
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