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On Sunday 06 August 2006 6:43 pm, Ken Gosier wrote: > Hi, I picked up SuSe 10.1 from CompUSA, and I can't start the > installation. The steps I've followed are: > > 1) My CDrom drive is not bootable. When I place the first CD into the > drive and reboot, the CDrom drive is ignored and the PC boots into > Windows. > > 2) I checked the user manual, on pg. 213, for "No bootable CDRom drive > available" This referred me to pg. 51 for creating boot and rescue disks. > > 3) pg. 51 for creating boot and rescue disks assumes I am already running > YaST. ie. It assumes I'm already halfway through the installation > process. > > Um, help? SuSe's tech support is only around 9-4 Mon-Fri. :-( We have a lot of SuSE experience on this list. I have been using SuSE since SuSE 5.1 replaced my Debian system. I currently run SuSE 10.0 on my desktops at home and at work and 10.1 on my laptop. Additionally, SuSE 10.1 can be started from floppy disks. If you look on CD1, you will see a boot directory. In that directory under the i386 directory, you will see a perl executable, mkbootdisk as well as README and README.DOS. The README will give you instructions how to create the boot floppies. There should be 6 or so needed because the modular kernel may need to load modules. So, if you are unable to boot the CD by changing the BIOS settings, create the floppies, and boot from them. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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