"Carlos E. R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > I downloaded the dvd, which took two whole days. I boot the dvd. It asks > for my language (US), but not for the keyboard (ES), which is a nuisance.
You can change it in the "proposal" screen. If you would have choosen
ES as language, you would have received automatically a spanish keyboard
as well.
> It searches the partitions, sees there are disks with more than 16
> partitions, and pops a large warning, recommending to reboot the install
> with kernel option "hwprobe=-modules.pata".
That should not happen. Please file a major bug in bugzilla against
"Installation"
> So I do.
>
> (Typing symbols like "=-" in a non US keyboard is a nuisance. When will
> grub support different keyboard layouts?)
>
> When I reach the point of installation (when it tries the network in order
> to add online repos), it pops a window requesting "insert opensuse 10.3
> CD1", "continue/cancel".
>
> I'm using DVD! Why does it ask for the CD1?
>
> Anyway, continue doesn't work (it asks again for CD1), and cancel aborts
> the install. What now?
That's strange :-( Do you have a SATA CDrom?
> Andreas: is that the workaround you wanted me to test? It doesn't work at
> all :-(
You shouldn't have received the first message at all :-(. Thanks for
testing.
>
> More. If I type "mount" in one of the consoles, it yields nothing. Not
> even the root filesystem shows! Why?
>
> It seems to want to mount the dvd in /var/adm/mount. There is nothing
> there. I mount it manually, try "continue". It still doesn't see the DVD.
>
> So I ask here for procedure.
Thanks,
Andreas
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