On Monday 01 January 2007 17:52, Robert Lewis wrote:
I am not sure if this is helpful. When I last installed 10.2 into a machine that had two DVD drives I found them both to be defective. Probably needs cleaning.
I can't find a power supply small enough with the extra amperage needed to carry more devices *and* the (very short) IDE cables are fully populated *and* the (small) chassis is already crammed full. It's gotta be an alternate procedure on this one.
I also have a USB external DVD drive. I plugged it into the machine and was amazed that the BIOS found it and that it installed perfectly.
No such external subsystem here and I'm out in the boonies with ice on the roads. :-)
I have also installed by having a USB harddrive with a Linux partition on it and the entire DVD copied to the drive with all the directories and files. I did this by mounting the image with the -o loop option and then a recursive copy to a directory on said media.
This is similar to what I need to do, but I already know how to proceed *after* I've booted the installation kernel from grub. Thanks for the offer and happy new year! Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org