Novell SLES10, 64 bit install media

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Dan Martin wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>
>> Are you not able to boot from CD1, or is the only problem here the md5sum?
>>
>>
>
> 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've never worried about the md5sum of a CD if the ISO image checked out. 
As long as cdrecord doesn't spit out any errors, and the CD works, the 
odds of getting bad data that RPM's own md5sum verification fails to 
detect is close to zero.

>
> 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.

Personally, I don't trust ext3 either, but I guess we don't want to turn 
this thread into a filesystem war.

>
> 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).

No, a 700MB CD would be fine.  Surely Novell isn't stupid enough to 
release an ISO image that is too big to fit on a standard CD.

>
> Thanks again,
> Dan Martin
>
>> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Dan Martin wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm having trouble creating the first install CD for
>>> SLES10, 64 bit.
>>>
>>> CDs 2 thru 4 are fine.
>>> md5sum /dev/cdrom   returns the correct sum for CD2 thru CD4.
>>>
>>> After downloading CD1,
>>> md5sum SLES-10-AMD64-EM64T-CD1.iso
>>> returns the correct sum.
>>>
>>> Only after creating the CD do I have problems--
>>> md5sum /dev/cdrom
>>> md5sum: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error
>>>
>>> Suse's media check from the install menu passes for CDs
>>> 2 thru 4, but fails reading sector 346,432 on CD1.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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)
>>>
>>> Any advice on how to write the CD?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Dan Martin
>>>
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