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Hello list, I recently purchased SuSE Professional 9.0 the DVD version. Unfortunatly I have some Opteron servers without a DVD drive so I copied the contents of the dvd to my laptop, set up an ftp server and monday i'm going to try to install it over the network. But I still need a bootable CD, is it possible to use the boot.iso from ftp.suse.com or do I need a seperate bootcd for the AMD64 version, and if so, how do I make it / where to download it? Thanks, -Kees ps, this message could appear multiple times on this list, as the mailserver was doing strange things to my mail.
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:32:56PM +0100, Kees Hoekzema wrote:
Hello list,
I recently purchased SuSE Professional 9.0 the DVD version. Unfortunatly I have some Opteron servers without a DVD drive so I copied the contents of the dvd to my laptop, set up an ftp server and monday i'm going to try to install it over the network.
But I still need a bootable CD, is it possible to use the boot.iso from ftp.suse.com or do I need a seperate bootcd for the AMD64 version, and if so, how do I make it / where to download it?
Thanks, -Kees
You can download a bootable iso for x86_64 on any mirror of ftp.suse.com in the x86_64/9.0 Branch, e.g. here: http://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/suse/suse/x86_64/9.0/boot/ Worked fine for me. Cheers! Gregor -- -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Gregor Stößer email: gregor.stoesser@chemie.uni-karlsruhe.de Institut für Anorganische Chemie Universität Karlsruhe Tel: 0721/608 2846 Fax: 0721/608 4854 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
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Hello list, Today I tried to install SuSE 9.0 Professional AMD64. Needless to say I didn't succeed, or otherwise I wouldn't have mailed you. The install goes fine, I can boot the system with the bootcd, and I can run Yast and get to the point where it installs my software. After that it wants to reboot my system, but when it boot I get an 'no init found, try passing init= to the kernel' error. So I used the CD to boot the system and looked for what was going wrong and couldn't find anything. I tried to boot with failsafe and that worked, so I looked in my lilo.conf to see what was different from the normal boot. It appeared to be the '3' so I rebooted and tried to boot with 'Linux init=3'. At least it didn't give the 'no init found' error again, but now my whole ext3 filesystem was corrupt and I had to reinstall, I reinstalled the box several times, and still got the first 'no init found' and than after a couple of reboots the filesystem was totally screwed again. I'm not using abnormal hardware / software configs that can explain this behaviour but maybe someone here knows what is going wrong. The system hardwareconfig: Tyan K8S w/ 6GB Dane Elec memory Dual AMD Opteron 240 Megaraid 1600 w/ 2 35GB Seagate Cheetah in a raid-1 config Onboard videocontroller, onboard nics, slimline cd-rom player. In Yast I change a couple of things before I install the software: - Partitioning: 1GB Swap (/dev/sda1) and 34G Ext3 (/dev/sda2) - Software: minimal system - Booting: Lilo w/ 'suggest new configuration and the edited' lilo.conf ~ image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/sda2 initrd = /boot/initrd append = '' read-only After I can boot the system I do an online update at which point the kernel is changed too. That can be the problem, but i havent analysed it yet. I've now spend 2 days trying to install the box, windows runs fine on it (a co-worker needed to do some benchmarking on it, so it was pretty hard tested then, but it remained stable). So now I've no idea how I can get the box stable, somehow the filesystem is getting corrupted and I get the 'init not found'-error after every install. -kees
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Gregor Stößer
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Kees Hoekzema