Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 09:33, Brad Bourn wrote:
> On Sunday 07 November 2004 10:03 am, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> >  want to install 9.2 from DVD on a machine that doesn't have a
> > DVD reader.  On a machine that does, I set up vsftpd and then
> > started a manual install from CD on the machine that doesn't.
> > I was able to start the install (in text mode) and get as far
> > as the first few YaST screens (GUI), but then he said he couldn't
> > read the software selections.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> I had the same problem,  had to install from cd's...

  Sorry for piggy backing this on your article Brad.  I think what you
both want is the network install, which has worked for me on 9.0.  You
need to export the DVD drive as NFS.  You'll need to know what the
network address is and path to the DVD drive as you would need to mount
it NFS on another machine.  You'll want to load your nic-module on the
target system.  It's pretty forward, and I chose the default install for
software,but did custom partitioning.