On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:30:19PM +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Mohammad Moghimi wrote:

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I have downloaded suse iso files and I wanna install it without write cd. I did this way for 9.3. And that time I burned cd1 and booted my computer then when it wants me other cds I mount others then I gave it its mount point. Can I install it without burn a cd?!

1. mount -rtiso9660 -oloop SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-RC1-CD1.iso /mnt/ cp /mnt/boot/loader/initrd /boot/inst-initrd cp /mnt/boot/loader/linux /boot/inst-linux umount /mnt/

2. Add a new boot target "install" to your grub or lilo configuration using image=/boot/inst-linux and initrd=/boot/inst-initrd.

This will boot "like from CD".

Mmm. Nice. I will see that I can implement this in makeSUSEdvd That will probably be something like `makeSUSEdvd -b`

You will need the installation source tree then on a partition or over the net.

To build the installation source tree, you can do this: <snip>

For that you can also use `makeSUSEdvd -i -s /dir/to/install` http://www.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Hi, On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, houghi wrote:

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:30:19PM +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

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1. mount -rtiso9660 -oloop SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-RC1-CD1.iso /mnt/ cp /mnt/boot/loader/initrd /boot/inst-initrd cp /mnt/boot/loader/linux /boot/inst-linux umount /mnt/

2. Add a new boot target "install" to your grub or lilo configuration using image=/boot/inst-linux and initrd=/boot/inst-initrd.

This will boot "like from CD".

I tried it and the boot got stuck at `creating device nodes`. I tried it with putting stuff on hda and hdb. Any ideas?

It may need a long time at that point. Working OK here with two different notebooks. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)

On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 12:26:20AM +0200, houghi wrote:

OK. Will retry it longer then the 5 minutes or so.

Well, that did not work. What did was taking the 9.1 DVD out of the DVD tray. :-) Am going to do some testing and see if I make a seperate page for burn-less instalation or actually put it on the page for makeSUSEdvd I guess it will be seperate as it needs tweaking either lilo, grub or whatever. Just too many factors to put in a script. Great, my social weekend is ruined. :-/ houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

* houghi [09-16-05 11:33]:

You need at least 1 CD. The easiest is to use the boot.iso and install via FTP.

why can't he: mount -o loop -t iso9660 <cd1-isofilename> <mountpoint> for the first cd and then ftp for the remainder I believe that he said he didn't want to create a cd; perhaps has no cd/dvd drive. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2

houghi wrote:

It is however a misconception that you need to have everything at your home when you want to install an OS. For some OSses that is the case. For the better OSses it is not and network instalation was there first. :-)

true only on the rich case :-(. I remember... next year :-), I had a 512k dsl line and installing a suse took... 4/5 hours. usable, but just. (was less than 1 hour with dvd) don't say with RTC modem.. jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr

houghi wrote:

Should have been still faster then downloading all 5 CD's first.

not if you have several installs to do. I did many (>50?) demo install, frequently two on a row on saturday afternoon. Was not possible with ftp... jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr

houghi wrote:

On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:34:55AM +0200, jdd wrote:

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houghi wrote:

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Should have been still faster then downloading all 5 CD's first. not if you have several installs to do. I did many (>50?) demo install, frequently two on a row on saturday afternoon. Was not possible with ftp...

The rsync would be better. Mirror the stuff and the PC's can do later in life the updates with that server (if all are connected inone intranet)

houghi where do you see the pc's are on a same net?

there where individuals bringing they PC to us :-) I also happen to do that on net I don't own and can't use as server jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr