Comments on: Walk-through installation of OpenSuSE 11.2

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:19:45 +0000

@Peter,

I’ve been trying to install a suse 11.2 VM with Sun Virtualbox on my Windows 7 machine and it always hangs at the Automatic Configuration step it does its restart.

I understand how to do what you mentioned there but I have no idea which process to kill. Could you point out which one it is please?

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By: Peter Erskine

Peter Erskine — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:14:34 +0000

Hi Jack,
I notice you tactfully omitted to mention that more often than not, the openSuSE 11.2 x86_64 installer hangs during packages installation when it reaches the grub package. If this happens, all is not lost. Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and use ‘ps -fe’ to spot the grub –batch process. Send it an ordinary TERM signal by doing ‘kill ‘ and the packages installation will resume over on the Ctrl-Alt-F7 screen.

By: mjt

mjt — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:14:15 +0000

I can certainly appreciate this post, as many others will.

I’d like to mention one thing most folks miss, especially
those who are seasoned (SuSE) Linux users – I refer
you to “Step 3″ – look for the innocuous and somewhat
“hidden” checkbox: “Use Automatic Configuration”

If you want to have control over the partitioning and the
configuration of GRUB, you’ll want to UNCHECK that
particular checkbox, otherwise, the openSuSE installer
will make its own decisions about hard drive configuration
and GRUB placement /configuration.

Sometimes it’s better to have complete control over the
installation process … if you miss this screen’s option,
then you’ll soon discover you don’t have control.

Regards, mjt … author, “Inside Linux”