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Installation of openSuse 10.2

Posted by pospiech in Linux on April 3, 2007 | one response | Print Page

Note: A similar description can be found at Pimp my Suse.

  1. Installation
    1. Grub
  2. System Configuration
    1. Network
    2. printer
    3. Removal of unwanted Functions
    4. Samba
    5. Setup of /etc/hosts
    6. Network shares
    7. Setup of apache
  3. Kde Configuration
  4. Update
    1. smart
    2. yast / opensuseupdater
    3. Nvidia Video Driver Installation / X Setup
  5. Setup of /home
    1. New Home / Configuration files
    2. Directories and Links
  6. mp3 and dvd with openSuse 10.2
  7. Installation of further packages
    1. RSIbreak
    2. LaTeX
    3. Fonts
  8. 3rd party programs

Installation

The Installation worked mainly as usual. It only failed at writing grub into the MBR, which is absolutely unacceptable. I had to install an option for the boot loader in an older distribution (10.1) to get 10.2 started. After that everything worked again as expected.

Grub

The reasons for grub not working could be found in /boot/grub/device.map, which listed the following device 
(hd0)   /dev/mapper/sil_agagdecafecb
which means /dev/hdc and is of course is a senseless entry. The file should have listed the following which is the content of “/boot/grub/device.map” in openSuse 10.1 
(fd0)   /dev/fd0
(hd0)   /dev/hdc
(hd1)   /dev/hdb
In the end I copied the /boot/grub/menu.lst from openSUSE 10.1 and changed the parameters for the other partition containing openSUSE 10.2. /boot/grub/menu.lst 
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Mar 12 23:09:41 CET 2007
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/message
 
 
title OpenSuse 10.2
    root (hd0,4)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc5 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/hdc3 splash=silent showopts
    initrd /boot/initrd
 
title Suse Linux 10.1
    root (hd0,5)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc6 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/hdc3  splash=silent showopts
    initrd /boot/initrd
 
title windows 1
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader (/dev/hdc,0)+1
 
title Windows 2
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    chainloader (hd1,0)+1
 
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Diskette
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader (fd0)+1
The Installation of grub is described in grub installation.
Next page: “System Configuration”

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One Response to “Installation of openSuse 10.2”

  1. Joe Shaw sagt:
    April 3, 2007 um 4:06 pm

    Hi,

    I’m the maintainer of Beagle, and I just wanted to let you know that there’s a new version out which is a lot more resource friendly, available here:

    http://software.opensuse.org/download/Beagle/

    I’d appreciate it if you could try it and let me know if you see problems with it.

    Thanks,
    Joe

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