Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Johan Nielsen <yep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What filesystem is used ?? (then you need to load that module if not present)

Smartest would be ext2/"fat16/32"

Fredag 19 november 2004 19:40 skrev Darrell Cormier:
> Has anyone done an install or upgrade from a hard drive local to the
> machine?
>
> I am trying to upgrade a 9.1 box using it's local harddisk.  I have the
> contents of DVD1 at /data/suse/9.2/install/ (built from a mounted iso image
> of dvd1).  /dev/hda4 is mounted at /data.  So when I boot using the 9.2
> boot disk, at the boot manager (grub) screen I tell it installation, then I
> hit F3 to change the installation source.  I select "Hard Disk".  Then in
> the next dialog I put:
> 	Disk Device:
> 		/dev/hda4
> 	Directory:
> 		/data/suse/9.2/install
>
> For the above I get the following message:
> 	Could not find the SuSE Linux installation source.
> 		Activating manual setup program.
>
> I have tried the following combinations and still get the same result:
>
> 	Device	|	Directory
> 	/dev/hda	|	/data/suse/9.2/install/
> 	/dev/hda	|	/suse/9.2/install/
> 	/dev/hda |	suse/9.2/install/
> 	hda		|	/data/suse/9.2/install/
>
> What am I doing wrong.  Could not find any info while googling (maybe my
> search criteria is wrong).  Tried searching SuSE sight for installation
> from hard disk, but didn't find it either.
> I have also tried installing from an nfs server but it only gets part way
> and craters with no recovery and it leaves me starting over. :-(
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Darrell Cormier
> Registered Linux user #370711  http://counter.li.org