Dave Howorth wrote:
Brian K. White wrote:
It's perfectly correct for the documentation to say ftp. It's also perfectly correct for you to use http if you want to. It should be obvious that any network-based install can only possibly work if your network card is lucky and happens to be on of the ones that the installer knows how to use. If the installer does in fact sucessfully light up your nic, and successfully negotiates dhcp, and your dhcp server gives you correct network and dns settings, and you want to use http, then you need to enter a valid repository hostname or ip, AND a valid path to a valid repo.
What _specifically_ about this don't you understand or what specifically from this did you do and it didn't work? http://en.opensuse.org/INSTALL_Internet
Btw I found that by doing something incredibly arcane and wizardly. I opened up google and put in "opensuse install http" Man that was hard.
That comes across as a little harsh and also reads as if you haven't read the whole thread. So excuse me if I just refer you to the thread for the details instead of reiterating them.
Cheers, Dave
Harsh? What's that got to do with anything? Do you want it to work or not? I install exactly this way almost exclusively countless times per month/week even per day some days, and have done so for years and it works fine every time. Further, it's quite simple and the _few_ details that a brand new user does need to be told the first time, are all spelled out in the document I referred to and several others like it. So what else do you want? It works for everyone else and for me too, so, if it's not working for you, I can only assume that you have not in fact followed the documentation, or you have an unsupported nic, or your dhcp server is handing out bad settings (but you should know how your own network works and you should not need to rely on dhcp anyways), or something about the documentation is not clear enough, or you don't have the necessary background to interpret the documentation. So, what you need to do is follow that document, and describe either what exactly wasn't clear enough for you to be able to do it, or what exactly you did that failed, and how exactly it failed. Simply saying you followed the steps isn't good enough, since they work for me and everyone else. Saying you entered a hostname into some field we can only guess at after some prior steps we can only guess at, also isn't good enough. I have indeed read the thread and indeed you are correct that reiterating any part of it would be pointless since not enough useful detail has been shown yet anywhere in it. You have not shown that you have actually followed the directions in the documentation. You have stated that you assume that DNS is working but don't know how to tell if it is or not. (and you want to install and use linux? hint, ctrl-alt-F4, ifconfig -a;netstat -rn ;cat /etc/resolv.conf , these commands show you the current network settings, it's up to you to know if they are correct for your network or not. If they look ok try ping www.google.com, if it works then your network is fully working and any problems are in the realm of your use of the installer, ie: what you are entering into the various fields. If it doesn't work then diagnose your network the same as for any other machine, which is beyond the scope of this email or even this mail list as it's a faq and there are countless how-to's for that already. If you know how your network is supposed to work but the installer network settings don't work, then tell us the model of your nic and we can look up if that is a nic that the installer has a driver for. Also does your pc have more than one nic? because in that case there is an opportunity to fail that the document I linked to doesn't talk about.). You have stated that you entered a hostname into some field we can only guess at, after some unknown prior steps we can only guess at, and that it produced an error. You have not shown that you entered a path to a repo into the subsequent field. (perhaps this field was never presented, as a result of the prior error, but I am not certain on that from what I can read in this thread so far, it's something I guess, not something you've stated, so it can't be considered) When I do these installs, I begin by knowing what my nic chipset is (or at least how to find out) and how to tell if there is a driver for it and how to tell if that driver is working and how to diagnose and resolve networking issues without the magic of dhcp, and a path to an install source. You should really know all that too if you expect to function. At this point I can't tell from the thread so far if you have a problem with your network, your nic, the nic driver (kernel & modules) included in the installer, or merely your use of the installer. But, if you describe more accurately what you are doing, then I would start to be able to. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org