Message-ID: <3C854043.16018C17@jam.rr.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:01:39 -0600 From: James Berry <jberry1@jam.rr.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] 7.3 install oddities
I got 7.3 running on an Ultra10 after a long struggle with Yast2
The downloaded cds were corrupt and had to be redone.
It may seem obvious, but use ftp (not browser) to download, and check the MD5
sums!
For Schaefer, YaST can't read the package labels (bad CD)
When 7.3 runs, it is beautiful!
James Berry
Mike Guffin wrote:
> I too have a similar problem...My SPRACstation 20 works fine with 7.1, but
> when I install (clean or oherwise) 7.3...I get the "CD's are not the same
> version" error when going from disc 1 to 2, etc...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schaefer, Robert (PS) [mailto:Robert.Schaefer@ps.bellhowell.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:23 AM
> To: 'suse-sparc@suse.com'
> Subject: [suse-sparc] 7.3 install oddities
>
> Well, I have FINALLY gotten 7.3 installed on my little SparcClassic over
> the weekend. (It only took a new hard drive, and a borrowed CD drive to
> get it all to work) I now have to minor issues. First, the install keeps
> complaining that the CDs I'm using don't match the version installed on the
> hard disk, which is interesting because these are the CDs I used to install,
> so there can't be a different version! (Where's this value stored, so I can
> see why it thinks this?) Secondly, when I go into the install/remove
> programs
> portion of YaST2, it crunches for a while, and then comes up with two values
> in the left window, which are z???? and zall (or something close) and I
> can't
> add or remove any programs. Why would this be happening and how can I fix
> it?
> I've got several packages installed that I want to remove to give me some
> more
> disk space. (I don't plan on doing any KDE development or even running KDE
> on this thing so want to remove all of that, same thing for 3d development
> and
> so on)
>
> Thanks for the help!!!
>
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