I have had similar problems. When you install a kernel different from the one that you booted from (i.e. not the default choice during installation) the installer does not re-run mk_initrd to include the required modules before rebooting. My solution was to use the standard kernel and then after installation and before reboot install the desired kernel, mk_initrd, run lilo and all is well. -- Simon Oliver ----- Original Message ----- From: "Purple Shirt" To: Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:12 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.2 install from hard disk

well it makes no sense to me and I can't remember this ever being

Eventually I got it installed via hard disk but I found a bug.

Bug Report:

installation via floppy disk from hard disk.

/dev/hda 4 gig drive to be installed /dev/hdb 17 gig with suse ftp tree /suse/i386/7.2/ ext2 format

Installed hda drive with reiserfs and it went along and worked then installed kernel. Did some more config and then comes the usual "Yast has to be started to finish configuring." Yast starts and then asks what method of installation to use. It only lists /dev/hda as valid drive and doesn't

required. list

/dev/hdb to install from. I suspect since hdb was ext2 and hda was reiser ext2 module wasn't loaded. Having no net connection or cd rom I had to abort this procedure because I couldn't specify a valid install method.

mk

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From: Flavio Arthur Leal Ferreira To: Purple Shirt CC: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.2 install from hard disk Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 15:05:24 -0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [202.58.118.7] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBD63ADEE007D40043150CA3A7607057A0; Sat, 08 Sep 2001 11:26:54 -0700 Received: (qmail 14115 invoked by alias); 8 Sep 2001 18:00:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 14106 invoked from network); 8 Sep 2001 18:00:59 -0000 From suse-linux-e-return-71793-purpleshirt Sat, 08 Sep 2001 11:28:20 -0700 Mailing-List: contact suse-linux-e-help@suse.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes list-help: mailto:suse-linux-e-help@suse.com list-unsubscribe: mailto:suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com list-post: mailto:suse-linux-e@suse.com X-Mailinglist: suse-linux-e Delivered-To: mailing list suse-linux-e@suse.com Sender: arthur@pro.via-rs.com.br Message-ID: <3B9A5DE4.76081770@procergs.rs.gov.br> Organization: PROCERGS X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19 i686) X-Accept-Language: en References:

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Purple Shirt wrote: Ok so I put a 17 gig drive into machine. Did mke2fs the whole drive and copied suse ftp onto it via local mount (mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd /usr/local/ftp/pub). I swap it into other machine and try to install suse onto 4 gig drive via hard disk option. It recognizes the drive when I specify it /dev/hdb but once I tell it /suse/i386/7.2/(suse/) it cannot find image.

to do an installation from hard disk, after you copy the files to /usr/local/ftp/pub do:

cd /usr/local/ftp/pub/suse/suse gzip -dc < images/root > setup/inst-img

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