SL 7.1 not installing from DVD on unpartitioned disk

2015-09-17 Thread Dirk Hoffmann
Dear community, Sorry, if this is a "known issue" or "feature", but we tried to install SL7.1 from DVD on a totally new disk without partition table. This seems to fail systematically with a hanging dark screen and mouse pointer and no usefull error message. Is that what it is expected to

Re: SL 7.1 not installing from DVD on unpartitioned disk

2015-09-17 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Dirk Hoffmann wrote: > Dear community, > > Sorry, if this is a "known issue" or "feature", but we tried to install > SL7.1 from DVD on a totally new disk without partition table. This seems to > fail systematically with a hanging dark

Re: SL 7.1 not installing from DVD on unpartitioned disk

2015-09-17 Thread Dirk Hoffmann
Reporting "someone else had a probem, but I don't know how it happened" is one of the great problems of debugging. It's not clear, for example, if your colleague was trying to install on top of pre-installed operating system on the new disk, or if they're familiar with what is, admittedly, the