Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Johan Nielsen <yep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Onsdag 10 november 2004 20:03 skrev Paul Ryan:
> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 17:18, Steve Kratz wrote:
> > > Man this is why I don't like buying crap online, now I gotta pay
> > > to send these junk CD's back.
> > > This system has 2 CDROM's, so the chances of both going bad the
> > > instance I decide to install SuSE
> > > 9.2 is highly unlikely. This workstation has been running FC2 w/o
> > > problems up until this install.
> >
> > Do you happen to have any machines on your network that could function as
> > a webserver? If you can read/copy the files off the install cd's onto a
> > web "folder," you can enter "install=http://website.com/9.2_source"; on
> > the install prompt and load the stuff across the network. I had to do my
> > Thinkpad that way since its CDRom is the pickiest thing in the world.
> >
> Is it Possible to copy the disks to a vfat or NTFS partition on the same
> machine and install from there ?

Yes that's possible ... just keep in mind what drive/partition you put it on.
Use "vfat"

Johan