Installation from DVD fails

[h0meles]

Hello, i am new to the linux community. ive been playing around with live CDs and such, even tried Kubuntu. so far i love it! im planing to switch over to linux from micro$oft soon, but i just cant get openSUSE working on my pc (P4 2.0; 512RAM; 370GB; Radeon 9600XT) . when i try to install from my DVD i pass the license agreement and language part, but when i reach 'Initializing Catalogs' i get this error message

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can anyone help me with this? i would love to get suse working.
thanks all

----h0meles

[rong]

Did you do an md5checksum? The disk may be bad.

[h0meles]

*sigh* it appears ive deleted my original iso file, and to download it again would take forever. can i run md5deep somehow using the burned DVD to extract the hash?



---h0meles

[leochan1986]

I had the same problem too, 2 days ago.
That issue is 99% related to a corrupted file which has a mismatched MD5 checksum.
Assuming that's the case, you'll have to download it all over again anyway, so what's the difference? take it easy!

Good luck!
Leo

[h0meles]

PHEW! thank u soooo much for this!!!

[h0meles]

no, it was a bad iso file that i burned. i dled it again and did an MD5 checksum and then burned it. everything is ok now but after i rebooted after a sucessful install my kde failed.

i needed to install my ATi driver but now im stuck to using a terminal (text-mode) and i cant find which device is my USB drive. when i say "ls /dev"
i get about 50 hits, and i cant determine which one is my usb so i cant mount it properly.

does anyone know how i can fix this problem?

i need to get back to a graphical environment so i cant find my usb drive.
i tried the repair option on my openSUSE DVD but everything was fine save a smtp server and some other minuscule things.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

[gogalthorp]

You could try:

as root

run

sax2

this should allow you to set up your graphics.

run

init 5

this should startup your GUI

[h0meles]

thanks, ill try that and get back to you.
next time i wont forget to install my drivers

EDIT=
i try using the 'locate' command but it keeps telling me that it is an invalid command and that it doesn't exist, why?

[gogalthorp]

You should not need to install drivers to get a basic GUI. It is for hardware 3D acceleration only. You should not need a special driver to see a basic desktop. You do need them for a fancy one like XGL or 3D games but you should get a desktop with the default OSS one.

[h0meles]

yes perhaps, but i tried playing a 2D motocross game and it was lagging immensely, i was perhaps getting 1 or 2 fps at the max. ill install the linux version of my card's driver and ill be on my way (as soon as i get kde back up that is )

EDIT=
okay, ive tried ur method and the sax2 configuration is fine, it was set just like i left it after installation. only thing is that when sax2 started up it told me i had not configuration for my X-Server. now i have no idea how to configure this. anyways, after sax2 finished i typed 'init 5' and got no reply. i tried it two more times but nothing happened. then i tried to start kde and got these messages.



any idea how to fix this? thanks again