OpenSuse 11.1 64bit ISO broken?

[CMonster]

My son built a new system, Intel Quad/Asus SLI Nvidia 4GB etc... nice system.

Multiple hard disks. He installed Vista Business first, then we went through the wringer trying to get OpenSuse 11.1 64bit to install - the md5s were perfect but somehow it could not read certain files on the DVD (tried two different drives one SATA one IDE) it boots and goes to the first part but can't read certain software repositories - perhaps it was a bad burn?

So we did a net install (Internet) from the mini CD, very light install took like 14 hours. Yeah I know we could have done a net install from the ISO on our intranet... however we do have fast cable but the repositories must have been busy. All went well, but it seems Vista hates Grub on it's mbr - so we changed the grub device map for Linux to be the primary drive and changed menu.lst (remapping Vista (hd1) (hd0) etc - you know how it goes), and installed grub on the mbr of the Linux drive, then we repaired Wishtah's boot loader from the DVD, (oddly enough it would only repair if all other hard disks were disconnected?) , switched the drives - rebooted and all is well. Once in Linux we put the 64 bit ISO image in a folder and added it as a repository in Yast -- no problems reading the thing this time.

Linux sees 8 cores on the CPU (hyperthreading?) - I am jealous now.

one of many dual boot tutorials: Dual Boot Vista and Linux | PC Tips

[mbzn]

Allways burn your linux iso's slowly
I burn them at 24x or less, dont have that problem then.
Also i found that grub sometimes like linux to be on your first partition of the first drive, otherwise it has a thing of not working without some work being done to it. This happens to me too, maybe bios or something, not sure on that.