Harald.Milz@computacenter.com wrote:

Hi,

any takers to this one? I posted this some time ago, no answer yet...

I am trying to set up an installation server from the respective CD images. I would like to just keep the images on the machine and mount them loop,ro, like

/pub/SLD /pub/SLD/CD1 /pub/SLD/CD2 /pub/SLD/CD3 /pub/SLD/CD4 /pub/SLD/CD5 /pub/SLD/ISO /pub/SLES8-AMD64 /pub/SLES8-AMD64/ISO /pub/SLES8-AMD64/SLES8-CD1 /pub/SLES8-AMD64/SLES8-CD2 /pub/SLES8-AMD64/SLES8-CD3 /pub/SLES8-AMD64/SLES8-CD4 etc....

The ISO directories keep the images, the CD1,2,3.. directories are the mountpoints.

I can't find any way to actually treat this structure as installation repositories. Has anybody had the same problem and can provide a nice solution? I would guess order / instorder is a solution but SLD and SuSE-8.2 don't have the yast directory. Seems I don't get it.

What exactly is the problem, i.e. with SLES8? I am not sure about this, but I think NFS exporting loop mounted files does not work! You can try HTTP install instead... In any case, the source has to follow the rules, and with SLES this mean the order files and othe files have to be provided in /pub/SLES8-AMD64 for example, and you need a different structure, one for CD1, and the other for CDs 2-3 (UL). /pub/SLES8-AMD64/ISO /pub/SLES8-AMD64/SLES/SLES8-CD1 /pub/SLES8-AMD64/UL/SLES8-CD2 /pub/SLES8-AMD64/UL/SLES8-CD3 /pub/SLES8-AMD64/UL/SLES8-CD4 This way you can follow the documentation and create a source. for SLD, and SL it should be easier... Anas

Mit freundlichen Gruessen - Best regards

Harald Milz Senior Consultant Enterprise Computing Solutions CC CompuNet AG & Co. oHG