installation of 7.1 via harddisk or ftp not possible
I have downloaded the whole suse 7.1 folder (from a local mirror on my campus) and have problems to install it from the harddisk using the bootdisk that I found in /7.1/disks. After typing in the right information concerning hd and path, the installer complains about not finding the right file and thus I cannot continue the installation. When spying on console 3 the installer seems to be looking for a file /7.1/setup/inst-img but there is not such a file in /7.1/setup I experimented putting an image from the /7.1/images folder to the /7.1/setup folder and naming it inst-img but this doesnt work. The only difference is that under console 3, when mentioning the right disk and path I get a loopmount=-1 returned. I dont get such a message when typing in a wrong path or hd or when there isnt an inst-img file at all (as on the suse - ftp). I then tried an ftp installation first with the mirror then with ftp.suse.com but this doesnt work either. I get the same problem, that the files cannot be found. (I typed in the ip-numbers of ftp.suse.com and just to be sure of ftp2.suse.com and mentioned the path /pub/suse/i386/7.1 I also tried to install linux from hdd with the setup.exe and loadlin from dos. I also tried the bootdisk that can be found in the update directory. I wonder that nobody seemed to have this problem before, since I cannot find any information concerning this problem on the web. help appreciated, Severin
Severin, On page 46ff (section 2.4) of the Suse manual (pdf) there is stepby step tutorial how to install Suse Linux from a harddisk partition. I think you fail in unpacking the root image with gzip (which you can find in dosutils) and copying it as inst-img into your setup folder. This is explained with more detail in step 7 in the mentioned tutorial section of the manual. Good luck! Andreas
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there I have just finished my "half-upgrade", I guess my system now is something like "SuSE 7.0.99" or sth like that. I did the upgrade downloading almost everything from the ftp, trying to reconstruct the CDs ... absolutely NO WAY. I told it before but I will keep on saying it : <rant> SuSE YOU HAVE MADE ME FEEL LIKE A CRACKER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY 3 YEARS LINUX EXPERIENCE. THIS IS NOT A LINUX EXP, THIS IS SOMETHING I EXPERIENCED MANY TIMES BEFORE, BUT WITH A DIFFERENT SYSTEM ... </rant> So that said I'll comment I used a "Brute Force" approach for upgrading, after reading some docs around I decided not to use their advice. I tried it in the laptop first and it worked. So my steps where more or less : - - Boot machine with boot disk ( /images ). - - Upgrade all packages in folder /suse/a1 ( base system ) plus all things relative to yast. ( folder /suse/yast1 ) using the expert installation mode ( neither could I use ANY of the other methods, u know, pirates have two use this approach. This is free software after all. - - Upgrade kernel ( to 2218 or 242 as u wish ) - - Reboot machine and go on upgrading folders using the 'expert'( one by one of course, so that you can remember you did not pay for the upgrade ( you paid for 7.0 just 4 months ago ) and think you are collaborating in SuSE's sinking because you are a cracker and a robber. - -After 3 or 4 nice hours doing this intelligent job of marking packets and pressing F10 to proceed ... - - Only troubles I had where with kde and qt compatibilities and the sort, after re-installing some packages in certain orders u get things going ( mostly qt libs and kde2 packs gave trouble ). So here I am with a wounded system that is working. I'll try to put this instructions in my webpage, together with a wounded Gecko and a bigger rant for SuSE GmbH, of course I'll put my personal registration number there, and also my MSDN number ( oh sorry I was mistaking the two companies, sorry ;) If this sounds as it sounds it is because I am deeply sad and annoyed with this issue. Couple weeks ago I was in the spanish Linux-Expo in Madrid; there is NO WAY you can buy that 2 or 3 versions upgrade in Spain... no firm sells it here.. and SuSE GmbH says that "you'd better not order anything from us directly since it will take more than 3 weeks shipping" Oh damn I am really sad and angry but at last I have my damned kinternet with sort-of working multiple ISDN providers, the ONLY real issue for me to upgrade. BTW yast has some nice improvements, also Yast2 is a little more than a toy now. - -- - From the forgotten corner in Europe, Land of Breogan Powered by GNU/Linux SuSE 7.0.half - Linux user #97.266 ...may the force be with you -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE62uh343VmOmspzC4RAg1rAJ4iN9DtasIZPbGXk7JhVfiy6xsvkACfam3a QmbGU4XRQueviMSI928QFdQ= =+CkK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Hello list friends, I too arrive at the same conclusion that only the manual installation works. Although the bootable CD I made from downloading files works quite well, linuxrc does not recognize it as a SuSE disk and the automatic installation cannot start. The recognition algorithm is a SuSE secret !? Happy easter, Andrei On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:41:22PM +0200, O'Bieito wrote:
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Hi there I have just finished my "half-upgrade", I guess my system now is something like "SuSE 7.0.99" or sth like that.
I did the upgrade downloading almost everything from the ftp, trying to reconstruct the CDs ... absolutely NO WAY. I told it before but I will keep on saying it : <rant> SuSE YOU HAVE MADE ME FEEL LIKE A CRACKER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY 3 YEARS LINUX EXPERIENCE. THIS IS NOT A LINUX EXP, THIS IS SOMETHING I EXPERIENCED MANY TIMES BEFORE, BUT WITH A DIFFERENT SYSTEM ... </rant>
So that said I'll comment I used a "Brute Force" approach for upgrading, after reading some docs around I decided not to use their advice. I tried it in the laptop first and it worked. So my steps where more or less :
- - Boot machine with boot disk ( /images ). - - Upgrade all packages in folder /suse/a1 ( base system ) plus all things relative to yast. ( folder /suse/yast1 ) using the expert installation mode ( neither could I use ANY of the other methods, u know, pirates have two use this approach. This is free software after all. - - Upgrade kernel ( to 2218 or 242 as u wish ) - - Reboot machine and go on upgrading folders using the 'expert'( one by one of course, so that you can remember you did not pay for the upgrade ( you paid for 7.0 just 4 months ago ) and think you are collaborating in SuSE's sinking because you are a cracker and a robber. - -After 3 or 4 nice hours doing this intelligent job of marking packets and pressing F10 to proceed ... - - Only troubles I had where with kde and qt compatibilities and the sort, after re-installing some packages in certain orders u get things going ( mostly qt libs and kde2 packs gave trouble ). So here I am with a wounded system that is working. I'll try to put this instructions in my webpage, together with a wounded Gecko and a bigger rant for SuSE GmbH, of course I'll put my personal registration number there, and also my MSDN number ( oh sorry I was mistaking the two companies, sorry ;)
If this sounds as it sounds it is because I am deeply sad and annoyed with this issue. Couple weeks ago I was in the spanish Linux-Expo in Madrid; there is NO WAY you can buy that 2 or 3 versions upgrade in Spain... no firm sells it here.. and SuSE GmbH says that "you'd better not order anything from us directly since it will take more than 3 weeks shipping"
Oh damn I am really sad and angry but at last I have my damned kinternet with sort-of working multiple ISDN providers, the ONLY real issue for me to upgrade.
BTW yast has some nice improvements, also Yast2 is a little more than a toy now.
- -- - From the forgotten corner in Europe, Land of Breogan Powered by GNU/Linux SuSE 7.0.half - Linux user #97.266
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amircea＠libertysurf.fr -
Andreas Philipp -
O'Bieito -
Severin Puschkarski