I have a pretty unique situation. I need to be able to dump the
contents of the CDs onto a partition and boot from that partition and
install. Do I do the "makesusedvd" and copy the contents of the DVD
and set the partition as active or do I run "makesusedvd -s or -i?
I want to Install Suse 10 on my Sony Vaio that has cdrom drive and no
floppy drive. I have MS Windows 2000 Installed on the first partition
of hard drive and
the second partition is storage space. I can copy the contents of the CDs
onto the second hard drive. Or I can take out the hard drive and kill the
first partition and copy the basic windows 95 boot file with Backpack CDROM
support. Other that that I'm at a loss at how to install form there. I
rather know how to install via hard drive.
On 3/18/06, houghi
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 05:10:17PM +0100, Mathias Homann wrote:
does it work with beta 8?
Others already have given the URL. With me it works for Beta8 and all other SUSEs, exept the SLES. That will be available in a later version. he main reason is that they do not begin with SUSE...iso
Unfortunatly no PPC version.
What I do for testing purposes is put all 6 CDs in one directory with softlinks (from the place where I downloaded them to) and then : makeSUSEdvd -o dvd -a /usr/src/packages/RPMS/ This puts the iso I want to burn (or mount) in the directory dvd and adds the RPMs I have in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/* on the DVD as well.
For real what I use is http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD. This means I run it as: makeSUSEdvd -a /usr/src/packages/RPMS/noarch/ -i -s ~/opensuse/10.1_B8
Next I can reboot and install witouth the need to burn a DVD. Remember that then it should be on a partition you are not going to format, because it is very hard to read data from a partition you just formatted. ;-)
If there are any problems with makeSUSEdvd, please mail me. Also sugestions are welcome. It would be great if somebody could make a PPC version from it. I do not have a PPC, so I can not try out, test or do anything.
houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau
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