Suse Linux 9 - Enterprise Edition

[scoobydoo62]

Hi.

I'm pretty new to Suse Linux but have installed SCO, AIX, SUN etc before on various platforms and I'm trying to install Suse Linux 9 on a Dell Inspiron 4100, it went through the installation procedure ok and stopped at the end of CD 2 with a blank screen and the words GRUB on it ...

Rebooted PC with CD 1 and tried the auto repair - same result ...
Rebooted PC and went for the Safe Login - this worked OK and I could login as root (guess I'm in single-user mode here) ...

Any ideas?

Regards
Mark

[ennoil]

My first thought is that the media is bad. Did you check it?

[scoobydoo62]

Check it against what ?
I've never known my CD writer to write a bad CD?

I downloaded the software from here ...
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=1HYSkGYIYow

Regards
Mark

[rong]

Corrupted disks from downloading is quite common. Use md5checksum to verify the integrity of the disk. If you have to dl again why not go for version 10.2 instead of 9 (unless your pc does not have the hdw requirements).

You are most likely at runlevel 1. You can verify with the runlevel command (as root).

[scoobydoo62]

Hi.

Ok tried reinstalling from scratch with ACPI disabled (option in the install script) - same end scenario - If I login to the Rescue option as root and type runlevel it says i'm at runlevel N 3 ....

Looked around - in /boot there is nothing? am I running the Suse directly from the CD ? If so does anyone know the command to manually mount the Hard Disk (I only have 1 x 30 Gb all allocated to Linux), should be something like - mount /dev/hda /mnt but it keeps complaining about that !

Regards
Mark.

ps. What is the command to get a page of details at a time, tried "more" or "pg" ... ? ie. ls -l /dev/hd* | more

[scoobydoo62]

Hi again.

Ok, managed to figure out it's a command called less - pretty amusing - found a command called md5summ - how do i check the CD's with that as I only have this Linux on the laptop and can only boot it via the Rescue option !

Finally, I can't install 10.? as it must be version 8 or 9 because I need to put a Sage Line 500 test system on this laptop which only works with versions 8 and 9 ...

Regards
Mark

[rong]

Looked around - in /boot there is nothing?

That's NOT good. /boot contains many files.

am I running the Suse directly from the CD ?

No.

anyone know the command to manually mount the Hard Disk (I only have 1 x 30 Gb all allocated to Linux), should be something like - mount /dev/hda /mnt but it keeps complaining about that !

Run fdisk -l to see your devices.

Yes, less is more

The place where you get your download from will/should have the md5checksum file which you dl at the same time as the .iso file. Then you run md5checksum.

[scoobydoo62]

Hi.

Ok, i'm being a bit dense here but the .iso files are on a Windows PC along with my CD/DVD writer lol - do I burn the ISO's directly onto a Blank CD as a Data File, mount the CD and then checksum them?

I'm currently re-installing (again) - this time trying the Safe Installation lol - I did notice the install thought I had 2 disks, one of 28 Gb and another just under 2 Gb, I manually dropped the 2 Gb bit and just told it to install the lot onto the one disk to see if this is the problem too .... fingers (and toes) crossed ...

Regards
Mark.

ps. I have a SCO OpenServer Laptop - can I checksum them there ?

[scoobydoo62]

Hi All.

Well that seems to have solved it Safe Installation ....

Thanks for all the help.

Regards
Mark.

[rong]

Good and congrats..