Myrosia Dzikovska said the following on 11/28/2010 07:47 PM:
[big snip] I don't have an external CD drive, so unless I find a way to boot from it, I cannot install opensuse.
<quote src="Christmas pantomime chorus"> Oh Yes You can </quote> You can boot of the network and do an install that way. Check out threads involving '[syslinux]' http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux the PXE loader group. http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project You can set up the server to install any version, or even run the system over NFS -which is what I'm playing with these days https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Diskless_network_boot_NFS_root https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Diskless_network_boot_NFS_root http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/diskless.html Start at http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/PXELINUX Don't try to be smart, just copy it. At the end of the page you'll get to the part about using Suse Its about Suse-9.2, but I'm sure you can alter the details for a more current version :-) (Or follow this pattern http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/WDSLINUX#Adding_Linux_images_to_boo... ) You have various options depending on the configuration ... boot like a liveCD, boot using NFS, or install. -- The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. --Alfred North Whitehead -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org