Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 11:50, James Knott wrote:
Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 02:43, James Knott wrote:
Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
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Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN wrote: > I've being waiting for the new 10.1 release to reinstall a laptop > computer and regain access to my starts to Linux. Even as a freshman, > the network installation option seems to me pretty convenient. But > I'm not able to follow the instructions at > http://en.opensuse.org/Released_Version#Internet_Installation to get > the installation done. > > I've download the ISO of the boot CD, reboot the computer from this > CD and go through the first steps of the installation configuring my > network card. But I never reach Yast, only some windows asking me > about the protocol and server to be used. I haven't been able to get network install to work locally, though I've used that method with the previous couple of versions. I have been able to get it to work. I used
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source ftp://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-sourc e
Expect long waits and retries. But it does work. I used the mini ISO with the above. I was referring to install from my own source. I have made the disks available on my own network via NFS. Always worked until now. I made the inst-source available via http and hd. Finally I could use a hd as installation source on the boot prompt! :))
James: I have no experience with installing over NFS. The advantage of installing over http is that every access attempt is logged on the server, whether it had success or not (apache logs).
Shot in the dark: perhaps the export permissions are not correct?
If you like us to help you with it, perhaps you could post the error messages? I just had an NFS shared directory available, which contains the various distros. I don't recall the exact message, but the install said it couldn't find the source, even though I specified the exact location, as I always do. I'll have to see if I can find anything else, next time I attempt to install it.
If you're sure you specified the correct url, then there's probably something wrong with the contents of the source. I'm curious on what file the installation breaks. This would e.g. show up in the apache logs as a missing file or so [if exporting by http, of course ;) ].
Does NFS show something similar in the logs?
If they did, those logs are long gone, as I recently installed 10.1 on that system, from CD.