On 2010/02/19 15:46 (GMT+0200) HG composed: You have tried a CD cleaning disk, right? A dusty or smoky environment is just as likely to cause a CD drive to "malfunction" as a real hardware failure.
However, can I do it 3) by simply using GRUB? Like here: http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD#Grub Is this enough? Can I just download these 2 files and store on the "old" partition to install from?
# wget http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/boot/i386/loader/lin... # wget http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss/boot/i386/loader/ini...
That would seem like the simplest thing to do. However, does that work?
That's been my method of choice since around 10.0, and I have about 7 machines with openSUSE I usually do this way for any fresh install of each new distro release. Just make it easy on yourself and setup a Grub stanza in advance to find those two files you downloaded, e.g. title Install SuSE 11.2 from opensuse.org http kernel (hd0,0)/suse112/linux install=http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/repo/oss hostip=192.168.1.200 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.1 nameserver=192.168.1.1 splash=off vga=791 initrd (hd0,0)/suse112/initrd (without wrapping of the kernel line of course) This is even possible on a new machine if you can find a way to boot something that you can use to install Grub. I usually use a Knoppix CD to install Grub and partition in advance of openSUSE installation, but this should be possible from a USB stick or PXE boot as well. You could even do it by temporarily installing an extra HD with some Linux already installed, as long as it has the right storage drivers in its initrd to run the alien machine. -- "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, 2nd US President Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org