Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2442 mails)

[Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 27 June 2007 18:15, John wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Have you resolved the problem?
>
> Hi Fajar,
>
> Well, am I embarrassed or what?? I was "sort of" trying to cut corners,
> and making big assumptions. First (and main) big assumption was that you
> can use an earlier version of boot disk to install across the
> network.... I was trying to use CD#1, Suse 10.0 to kick off the install.
> Obviously this won't work, as when I eventually got a CD#1,10.2 it
> worked... Admittedly SLP still wouldn't work (??), and I only got SMB
> working by mapping the drive manually..... But it worked!!
> Seems like a bit of overkill having to download the whole CD#1 just to
> boot, but I couldn't figure out how else to do it. From lots of Googling
> and forum browsing, I couldn't find an "idiots guide" to how to network
> install. Network install gets "mentioned" a lot, but the actual method
> for doing it is not easily available....
> Ah well, I'll remember this next time, anyway!!

I'm not sure about Suse10.0, but I use Opensuse10.1 CD #1 to do network 
install of 10.1 (of course), 10.2, and SLED10, SLES10. All work.

To do network install, I boot the PC, and when the nice welcome screen of 
OpenSuse appears, I type in the options:
Install=nfs://10.0.0.30:/srv/www/htdocs/pub hostip=10.0.0.50 
netmask=255.255.255.0

We can even put autoyast=nfs://10.0.0.30:/autoyast/template.xml for automatic 
install. Suse is very cool.

Of course, we should put all the contents of Opensuse10.2 CD 
into /srv/www/htdocs/pub and make the NFS export of it on 10.0.0.30 first.
  
I love to do network install. 
Thanks Suse.

BTW, the resouce for network install is in http://www.opensuse.org web, just ;
search for "network install".
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