On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 01:41:37PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
Lars Müller wrote:
http://en.opensuse.org/Network_Install might help.
Well, I'm doing a local install, not a remote install and that page says even less than the one I was using about hpw to run the install, unless I've missed something. Is there some specific information on that page about how to run the install, as opposed to how to prepare for it?
The same approach even works for an installation in the case you can't use a CD or DVD to start from.
You need to use the location of the actual files of the openSUSE distribution and not the one with the CD/ DVD ISO image files in.
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ is the location for 11.1 for example.
OK. I repeated the install as before but changed the directory to "/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/" but I still get "No repository found". Was I supposed to do something different?
Have you used http? Have you tried to paste http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ to a web broweser and do you get a listing starting with the ARCHIVES.gz file and ending with the suse/ directory?
The mirrorbrain mechanism ensures to redirect your client transparently to the best or closest known mirror seen from your particular network location (AS) if you use http as transport protocol.
Are you saying that I don't need to do an FTP install (as stated on the wiki page) but can do an HTTP one and in that case I can use DNS instead of IP? (I'll try that while I wait for a reply)
If your system has a working network setup including DNS this approach is known to work. The mirrorbrain approach only works for HTTP. That's why I'm using HTTP for all repos in use. Independent it it is an initial install or if it is about applying updates. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany