Hello, I copied over both dvd1 and dvd2 into a somedir/ on the ftp install server. While netbooting from the tftp/bootp server I do not get the option to send in the install=ftp:// option as it boots into the linux image by default. However it then drops to the menu through which I am able to ask it to install over network (ftp) through the boot menus (those must be the linuxrc menus, is it not?). However I still get the 'Cannot read package data from installation media. media error? ERROR: no proposal'. How can I use mkzimage_cmdline to include the install=ftp commandline to the inst64 file? and where do I access this utility from? Can you kindly point me to the syntax for the same? Thanks and Regards, R Sharada IBM Software Labs, Bangalore, India 6th Floor, D Block, C Wing, Embassy Golf Links, Off Indiranagar - Koramangala Ring Road, PIN: 560071 rsharada@in.ibm.com Direct: 51776364 extn: 76364 IBM India Software Lab: http://w3.ibm.com/articles/workingknowledge/2005/10/ap_isl_main.html Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> To 03/23/06 03:00 PM R Sharada/India/IBM@IBMIN cc suse-ppc@suse.com Subject Re: [suse-ppc] Power4 install of SLES10 Beta7 On Thu, Mar 23, R Sharada wrote:
Hello All, I was trying a netboot and ftp install of SLES10 Beta7 on a Power4 box. The box is question is a p630 and I tried netbooting using the inst64 image. While netbooting does work ok, I ran into media read errors while trying to read software packages in the 'Installation Settings' window. Does anyone have a pointer to some workaround for this?
How does your installation source look like? You have to export CD1 with name '/somedir/CD1', and pass this via install install=http://server/somedir/CD1 from the kernel cmdline. In case of netboot, either walk through the linuxrc menus or use mkzimage_cmdline to encode a kernel cmdline into the inst64 file.