Bug 129390 - Floppy boot, installation media path error
Summary: Floppy boot, installation media path error
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: PC SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Blocker
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Assignee: E-mail List
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-10-19 15:06 UTC by Howard Thomson
Modified: 2005-10-19 17:20 UTC (History)
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Description Howard Thomson 2005-10-19 15:06:32 UTC 
Installing OpenSuSE 10.0 CD download onto an old (120MHz Pentium, 144Mb,  
6.4Gb) laptop without boot-from-CD.  
Installation proceeds as follows: 
 
Boot from floppy ... 
Installation media not found, activating manual install 
Install additional (generic, ide-generic) modules 
Continue installation, reading from the CD 
[switch to console #2; cd; ls etc confirms CD is now mounted and accessible] 
Analysing the computer ... 
Confirm driver activation dm-mod: yes 
Confirm driver activation: dm-snapshot: yes 
New Installation 
Date/Time 
Desktop KDE 
 
Reach install packages ..... 
##NO INSTALLATION MEDIA ## despite having been reading from the CD !! 
"No source found at 'cd:///;devices=/dev/hdc'" 
 
At this point, the CD (on /dev/hdc) is still mounted and accessible 
on /var/adm/mount. 
 
I have not so far been able to progress any further with installation on this 
machine. 
 
I had a similar experience, when attempting to update software on SuSE 9.3, 
when altering the installation source from YaST resulted in empty or multiple 
identical media source entries.
Comment 1 Howard Thomson 2005-10-19 17:20:36 UTC 
On attempting to install from this CD on a second machine, with boot-from-CD, it would appear that the installation media may have problems. I will re-post when I can establish the MD5 correctness of the media.