Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (158 mails)

[Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 10:24 +0100, Dirk Schreiner wrote:
> > Hi @all,
> > 
> > Roger Oberholtzer schrieb:
> > > Has anyone else on this list actually done EXACTLY this:
> > > 
> > > 1. Install OpenSUSE10.0 on a server
> > 
> > I use a boxed SuSE 10 on a MS IIS Installation Server.
> > (Simply copied the DVD-Content.)
> > 
> > > 
> > > 2. Use the YAST to set up an install server for the OpenSUSE 10.0 disks.
> > > 
> > > 3. Used PXE to boot a client so it can do an install of OpenSUSE 10.0
> > > from this server?
> > 
> > I`m not using PXE, but as i followed the Thread, that`s not
> > the problem ;-)
> > 
> > I prefer http instead of nfs, cause I never had trouble with http.
> 
> I have tried http, and now it complains no route to host. They are
> connected! Otherwise the damn pxe boot would fail. Every other machine
> on the same network can easily access the install server http area!

I can only repeat my advice to use a 10.1 beta boot CD to debug this. It has
some network tools included in the initrd.


Steffen