Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Leendert Meyer wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 May 2006 02:43, James Knott wrote:
> > Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
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> > > > Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN wrote:
> > > > > I've being waiting for the new 10.1 release to reinstall a laptop
> > > > > computer and regain access to my starts to Linux. Even as a freshman,
> > > > > the network installation option seems to me pretty convenient. But I'm
> > > > > not able to follow the instructions at
> > > > > http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version#Internet_Installation to get
> > > > > the installation done.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've download the ISO of the boot CD, reboot the computer from this CD
> > > > > and go through the first steps of the installation configuring my
> > > > > network card. But I never reach Yast, only some windows asking me about
> > > > > the protocol and server to be used.
> > > > I haven't been able to get network install to work locally, though I've
> > > > used that method with the previous couple of versions.
> > > I have been able to get it to work.  I used
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source
> > > ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source
> > > ftp://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source
> > >
> > > Expect long waits and retries.  But it does work.  I used the mini ISO
> > > with the above.
> > I was referring to install from my own source.  I have made the disks
> > available on my own network via NFS.  Always worked until now.
>
> I made the inst-source available via http and hd. Finally I could use a hd as 
> installation source on the boot prompt! :))
>
> James:
> I have no experience with installing over NFS. The advantage of installing 
> over http is that every access attempt is logged on the server, whether it 
> had success or not (apache logs).
>
> Shot in the dark: perhaps the export permissions are not correct?
>
> If you like us to help you with it, perhaps you could post the error messages?

I just had an NFS shared directory available, which contains the various 
distros.  I don't recall the exact message, but the install said it 
couldn't find the source, even though I specified the exact location, as 
I always do.  I'll have to see if I can find anything else, next time I 
attempt to install it.