On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:22:40AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/02/19 13:37 (GMT+0100) Lars Müller composed:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:40:12PM +0800, Frederic Muller wrote:
I'm trying to migrate from another distribution
If you have already a Linux system running on it download the install kernel and initrd from the /12.1/repo/oss/boot/x86_64/loader/ directory. The files are named initrd and linux. Next boot them and then you can install. This process will drop you in the text mode.
I do nearly all my installs by starting downloaded installation initrd & linux with Grub, but the process rarely drops me into text mode. What hardware is doing that to you?
I tried to keep it simple and stupid by keeping the additional parameters you mentioned out of my reply. If you sit in front of the device the way I suggested is the easiest one.
Here's the last Grub stanza I used for an i865 system:
title Install SuSE 12.2 snapshot kernel (hd0,2)/suse122/linux showopts install=http://download.opensuse.org/factory-snapshot/repo/oss/ lang=en keytable=us hostname=myhost hostip=192.168.1.2/24 gateway=192.168.1.1 nameserver=192.168.1.1 namescheme=by-label kexec_reboot=0 ipv6.disable=1 noresume video=1152x864 vga=0x318 3 nomodeset initrd (hd0,2)/suse122/initrd
Of course for 12.1 the source would have to be .../distribution/12.1/... rather than .../factory-snapshot/....
There had been changes to the linuxrc parameters. See http://en.openSUSE.org/SDB:Linuxrc Therefore I'm no longer sure if this works as before. But good to read if it still works for you with openSUSE Factory! Unfortunately the article doesn't differentiate well between the operating system versions. At least recently I failed to preconfigure a system for a remote upgrade. BTW Sorry for sending the last reply twice. Yesterday the list server had some issues and I had to resent my reply. And this morning without enough morning drugs I resent it two times. :/ Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany