Hi Anas, I entered your line exactly into boot command line but still autoyast reports the same error: Please insert CD 1. Could not mount the source medium. mount:/dev/hdb already mounted or /var/adm/mount busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdb is already mounted on /var/adm/mount Does anyone else have had better luck? Can anyone explain by what rule does boot parameters appear in boot commandline? There's some command line parameters for every boot option in isolinux.cfg but only 'Installation - Safe settings' parameters show up on bottom line when selected. It would be good to be able to look every option's parameters and edit if needed. For some guys who still have problems with setup not recognizing their CD as valid install source. I had same problem yesterday and appeared that the problem was with using bs= parameter for dd when extracting iso from CD. Doing just a simple dd < /dev/cdrom > plaa.iso cured everything. So the good command sequence is: dd < /dev/cdrom > suse1.iso mkdir susedir mount -o loop suse1.iso susedir mkdir mydir cp -a susedir/* mydir/ umount susedir cp ~/autoinst.xml mydir/ mkisofs -r -T -J -pad -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \ -b suse/images/boot/isolinux.bin -c suse/images/boot.catalog \ -A SuSE-Linux-Professional-INT-i386-8.0.0#0 -V SU8000.001 -o myinstall.iso mydir Now if anybody could explain me how to make this CD boot, read configuration file and install all from same CD I would be saved from offering floppies to customer. Please:) -- Peeter On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Anas Nashif wrote:

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i'm trying to prepare a custom cd. what is the correct path description for the installation source on cd?

maybe...

install=file://

Try this: put the control file in the root of the CD image and name it autoinst.xml and add the following to isolinux.cfg

autoyast=default instmode=cd usedhcp=0

Anas