Hi, On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Mohammad Moghimi wrote:
I have downloaded suse iso files and I wanna install it without write cd. I did this way for 9.3. And that time I burned cd1 and booted my computer then when it wants me other cds I mount others then I gave it its mount point. Can I install it without burn a cd?!
1. mount -rtiso9660 -oloop SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-RC1-CD1.iso /mnt/ cp /mnt/boot/loader/initrd /boot/inst-initrd cp /mnt/boot/loader/linux /boot/inst-linux umount /mnt/ 2. Add a new boot target "install" to your grub or lilo configuration using image=/boot/inst-linux and initrd=/boot/inst-initrd. This will boot "like from CD". You will need the installation source tree then on a partition or over the net. To build the installation source tree, you can do this: mkdir /xxx//suse10-rc1/ # somewhere, but not within those partitions where # you want to install for i in 1 2 3 4 5 do mount -oloop -rtiso9660 SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-RC1-CD$i.iso /mnt/ cp -a /mnt/ /xxx/suse10-rc1/CD$i umount /mnt done Then /xxx would be your "installation partition (you have to give the corresponding /dev/hd.. or /dev/sd.. name instead), and suse10-rc1/CD1 would be the path to enter as the installation source. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)