joe wrote:
I did not receive a response from my previous request, but I have thought about it and think my problem may have to do with the way SuSE sees the hard drive. I would like to try adding the current fstab to the installation disk, is there an easy way to do that and have the installation program use it?
thanks in advance
joe
PS: previous request for help:
Need help for directory install problems with new hardware Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 19:08:32 -0500
I have the entire SuSe 7.0 ftp site on my hard drive, I had no problems doing a hard drive install making the boot/install disks. However, I have since upgraded my hardware to a Athlon 800 MHZ, ATI Xpert2000 , and Memorex 48 eide cdrom. When I try to do a hard drive install it says the directory is wrong.
At first I thought it was the Maxtor ez-bios that was installed, so we removed that and reformatted the 40 gig drive using the new hardware, copied the cdroms to the drive and tried the install. No go- it may be a problem with not finding a inst-img ? But I looked all over the suse ftp site but can not find one.
My old version of suse 6.3 has no trouble installing packages from the hard drive, I can upgrade everything, but if I try to do an entire install or upgrade, it complains that my version of YaST is too old and I need to use the boot disks - unfortunately the boot disks don't work.
Desperation sets in, I try doing a complete install from SuSE 6.3 6 cdrom set and NO GO, it complains I don;t have enough memory for a ftp install ( need 32 megs I only have 128 megs, go figure) The install stops after the first disk complains about memory problems, the 128 megs just ain't enough according to suse 6.3.
What's going on?
It looks like I need to upgrade to 7.0 to use my new hardware, if I could only get the boot disk to work. My Suse 7.0 ftp site is stored on /dev/hdb11/cdrom/suse
Any help will be appreciated.
thanks in advance
Using Yast1 "Ajustments of installation" - "Set target partitions/filesystems" - Then F7 to read fstab from disk.. -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com