SuSE 9.1 CDROM and DVD are different versions
I recently purchased SuSE Linux Pro 9.1. As usual I copied the DVD to my NFS server so that I can do local minimal installs using CD1 and then once up and running machines can have extra packages installed via NFS as required. However, I find that the DVD bundled with 9.1 is RC1 whereas the CDs are RC2. This means loads of conflicts if one tries to install anything from the DVD (or network copy thereof) on a machine that was originally installed via CDROM (and vice versa)! The only fix I can see is to copy each CD to my NFS server and throw the DVD in the bin! -- Simon Oliver
On Thursday 01 July 2004 06:52, Simon Oliver wrote:
I recently purchased SuSE Linux Pro 9.1.
As usual I copied the DVD to my NFS server so that I can do local minimal installs using CD1 and then once up and running machines can have extra packages installed via NFS as required.
However, I find that the DVD bundled with 9.1 is RC1 whereas the CDs are RC2.
This means loads of conflicts if one tries to install anything from the DVD (or network copy thereof) on a machine that was originally installed via CDROM (and vice versa)!
The only fix I can see is to copy each CD to my NFS server and throw the DVD in the bin!
-- Simon Oliver
Which specific packages did you find to be different (no, not expecting you to name all, just a couple that stand out...)? I wonder if this explains the fact that some users are having problems after an automatic (YOU) kernel upgrade, and others arent. Initially it looked like the problems were centered on hard-drives of a certain size (4-10gig), but that size also is consistant with machines having no DVD drives (due to their cost when said machines were manufactured). -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
Other options to do minimal Installation: a) Copy Diskimages to CD and make it bootable, then set installationsource to DVD or nfs mount and install via nfs. b) Install from CD and switch Installationsource to DVD or NFS-Mount This works with manual installation and with yast in graphical mode. If you want to install additional software the source is stored in Yast config and you can later install software from nfs-server. I didn't found anything in yast, where you can store config of installed packages as with yast1 on old SuSE. Does anybody know howto do this? Philippe
Philippe Vogel wrote: ...
I didn't found anything in yast, where you can store config of installed packages as with yast1 on old SuSE. Does anybody know howto do this?
You want to look at "auto_yast". You can set up a config file with most all the options you need, then with a hideously long boot options line, cause it all to be automatic after a couple of <returns>. It worked reasonably will for me on several SLES-8 installs that I needed to be just alike, but on varying hardware (generally different disk sizes). There a Suse list for it IIRC. If your machines are clones of each other, I've had excellent results with creating 1 machine to be how I want it. Then I "dd | ssh" off an image of the HD to somewhere on my network (boot off a rescue CD to make sure the install is in a stable state). Finally, for each clone machine, I boot with the rescue CD, then "ssh | dd" the image to the new HD. HTH, Kevin
On Thursday 01 July 2004 16:52, Simon Oliver wrote:
I recently purchased SuSE Linux Pro 9.1.
As usual I copied the DVD to my NFS server so that I can do local minimal installs using CD1 and then once up and running machines can have extra packages installed via NFS as required.
I find it usually easier and faster to install via nfs right from the beginning, well in fact, I do it via pxegrub(*) without any removable drives involved..
However, I find that the DVD bundled with 9.1 is RC1 whereas the CDs are RC2.
This means loads of conflicts if one tries to install anything from the DVD (or network copy thereof) on a machine that was originally installed via CDROM (and vice versa)!
The only fix I can see is to copy each CD to my NFS server and throw the DVD in the bin!
-- Simon Oliver
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