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Re: [opensuse] Need to create a single-disk installer
- From: "Mike Diehl" <mdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:48:59 -0600
- Message-id: <200704031648.59456.mdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Yes, there is. Our final deployment will be in limited rack space on a
stand-alone network. We have the additional need to manage complexity since
we won't be managing the server(s) directly.
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 15:31, Magnus Boman wrote:
> Mike,
>
> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 15:30 -0600, Mike Diehl wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I'm needing to create a single CD/DVD that will automatically install and
> > configure a stripped down SLES9 server. I've got an autoyast control.xml
> > file created that works from my pen drive just fine.
> >
> > But I'd like to see if I can minimize the amount of media swapping
> > involved by putting all of the needed .rpm files on one disk. If I do
> > that, how do I tell the installer to not ask for the additional media?
>
> Is there a reason why you can't use an installation server?
> I'm sure there are ways to combine those CD's to a single DVD, but I
> doubt that it's supported by Novell/SUSE. If you still want to go ahead,
> have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs
>
> > TIA,
> >
> > --
> > Mike Diehl,
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
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stand-alone network. We have the additional need to manage complexity since
we won't be managing the server(s) directly.
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 15:31, Magnus Boman wrote:
> Mike,
>
> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 15:30 -0600, Mike Diehl wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I'm needing to create a single CD/DVD that will automatically install and
> > configure a stripped down SLES9 server. I've got an autoyast control.xml
> > file created that works from my pen drive just fine.
> >
> > But I'd like to see if I can minimize the amount of media swapping
> > involved by putting all of the needed .rpm files on one disk. If I do
> > that, how do I tell the installer to not ask for the additional media?
>
> Is there a reason why you can't use an installation server?
> I'm sure there are ways to combine those CD's to a single DVD, but I
> doubt that it's supported by Novell/SUSE. If you still want to go ahead,
> have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs
>
> > TIA,
> >
> > --
> > Mike Diehl,
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
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