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[Marc Benstein <endir@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexander S. Usov wrote:
> Is it possible to do a hard-drive installation using SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD* 
> images?
>
> When I am trying to feed the image into the installation program it 
> produces error message like (typed in from memory, could be not precise):
>
> mounting image: /mounts/extra/suse/SUSE.iso
> Error: value too big for the defined datatype
I haven't tried to install from the image. But you can mount the image 
and copy the dvd to a partition from which to install.

Here's the command to mount an iso:

mount -o loop -t iso9660 SUSE.iso /mnt