Novell SLES10, 64 bit install media

[Dan Martin]

Net Llama! wrote:

>Are you not able to boot from CD1, or is the only problem here the md5sum?
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Thanks, Lonni.   CD1 will boot, but I don't trust it.  It's a new 
machine that was delivered with
SLES10-64 already installed.

I want to reinstall because the fellow who did the install used the 
default reiserfs.    I read back in
October that Novell was moving to ext3 as the default fs, but I guess 
that report was premature.

Mostly based on advice from this group, I don't trust it (reiserfs) 
either.   As an aside, I have
had 32 bit SLES10 running here as a test.  It is very lightly used, but 
on 3 occasions, the
reiser filesystem has decided that it is read-only, thus halting any 
useful work, with no recourse
but a power down, that I can discern.  I haven't tried to track down the 
problem.  I just decided
that based on it, I won't be using it again.

Mike Reinehr has also kindly replied, asking about the CD capacity, 
which is, in fact 700 MB.
I'm concerned that the CD media folks call 1,000,000 bytes a megabyte, 
instead of  1,048,576.
If I'm right about that, even a 700 MB capacity won't hold 709601280 
bytes (676.7 MB).

Thanks again,
Dan Martin

>On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Dan Martin wrote:
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>>Hi All,
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>>I'm having trouble creating the first install CD for
>>SLES10, 64 bit.
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>>CDs 2 thru 4 are fine.
>>md5sum /dev/cdrom   returns the correct sum for CD2 thru CD4.
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>>After downloading CD1,
>>md5sum SLES-10-AMD64-EM64T-CD1.iso
>>returns the correct sum.
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>>Only after creating the CD do I have problems--
>>md5sum /dev/cdrom
>>md5sum: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error
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>>Suse's media check from the install menu passes for CDs
>>2 thru 4, but fails reading sector 346,432 on CD1.
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>>I've tried 3 different CD writers, 2 under windows and
>>one on Linux.  The Windows program reports a failure on
>>CD1 (but creates CD2-4 ok).  The CDRW on linux finishes
>>CD1 without reporting an error, but the md5sum is wrong.
>>I'm not familiar with the details and options that I might
>>try on the CD writing programs.
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>>CD1 is larger than the others, so I'm guessing that might
>>contribute to the problem.  I dd'd the contents of CD1
>>back to a disk file, and dd created a disk file of
>>693221376 bytes.  It should be
>>709601280 bytes (676.7 MB)
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>>Any advice on how to write the CD?
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>>Many thanks,
>>Dan Martin
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