Will opensuse 10. 0 allow install from harddisk (iso files) like fedora installer does ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In fedora systems if grub is installed - Copy the vmlinuz and initrd to some linux partition fom 1st cd - modify grub to boot from that - select harddisk as install media - install directly from iso files -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Lintech wrote:
Will opensuse 10. 0 allow install from harddisk (iso files) like fedora installer does ?
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- Copy the vmlinuz and initrd to some linux partition fom 1st cd - modify grub to boot from that - select harddisk as install media - install directly from iso files
With some hacking it's possible to do this in SUSE Linux 10.0, but using iso images as source isn't supported yet. As far as I know, this is work in progress for the next SUSE Linux (10.1). Regards Christoph
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 07:07:56PM +0200, Christoph Thiel wrote:
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Lintech wrote:
Will opensuse 10. 0 allow install from harddisk (iso files) like fedora installer does ?
[...]
- Copy the vmlinuz and initrd to some linux partition fom 1st cd - modify grub to boot from that - select harddisk as install media - install directly from iso files
With some hacking it's possible to do this in SUSE Linux 10.0, but using iso images as source isn't supported yet. As far as I know, this is work in progress for the next SUSE Linux (10.1).
I am not interested in rebooting and start over again, so I can only asume things. If it is possible to point to an existing partition during the instalation, you could use http://www.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs with `makeSUSEdvd -i`. That will put all the files in /tmp/CD_DIR/ on the partition you are working on. Use `makeSUSEdvd -i -s /path/to/save` for any other place. Again, not sure if this will work. If it does, please let me know. (also if it does not) houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Lintech schrieb:
Will opensuse 10. 0 allow install from harddisk (iso files) like fedora installer does ?
Sort of. Burn the mini iso (or the first cd), loop-mount the currently wanted iso image to /mnt, point the installer there, wait until it wants the next disk, loop-unmount it, loop-mount the next iso image to /mnt, continue... At least that's the way I installed RC1 on my machine. Regards, Carl-Daniel
Hi, On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Lintech schrieb:
Will opensuse 10. 0 allow install from harddisk (iso files) like fedora installer does ?
Sort of. Burn the mini iso (or the first cd), loop-mount the currently wanted iso image to /mnt, point the installer there, wait until it wants the next disk, loop-unmount it, loop-mount the next iso image to /mnt, continue...
At least that's the way I installed RC1 on my machine.
To make it "less interactive", you could do for i in 1 2 3 4 5 do mkdir /mnt/CD$i mount -oloop -rtiso9660 SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-RC1-CD$i.iso /mnt/CD$i done and give ".../CD1" as installation source. This way, the "change media" interaction is not needed. YaST will by itself try to find all CDn directories if "/CD1" is the end of the given path. But anyways: this is not "install from harddisk" because you need an external server. Doing this within the system lacks the first step: you can't switch with F2 to a parallel text console (where you could do the mounts locally before installation) before you have accessed CD1... Maybe it can work if you use a "real" CD1 instead of boot.iso. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger schrieb:
Lintech schrieb:
Will opensuse 10. 0 allow install from harddisk (iso files) like fedora installer does ?
Sort of. Burn the mini iso (or the first cd), loop-mount the currently wanted iso image to /mnt, point the installer there, wait until it wants the next disk, loop-unmount it, loop-mount the next iso image to /mnt, continue...
At least that's the way I installed RC1 on my machine.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
There is also the possibility, if you have another SUSE-Box up and running to make use of the YaST Installation Server. Import RC1-Isos into YIS, burn the small (60Meg) boot.iso, and start up with install=slp, which should do it well. I Installed beta4 this way, and will try tomorrow with RC1. Worked well for me, except that in SUSE 9.3, you perhaps will have to use the original Yast Installationserver from DVD, except the one from Update. With the updated one, the boot.iso was not able to detect settings via slp, nor find my NFS-Source when specified manually. HTH, Christian
On Saturday 10 September 2005 6:01 pm, Lintech wrote:
Will opensuse 10. 0 allow install from harddisk (iso files) like fedora installer does ?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- In fedora systems if grub is installed - Copy the vmlinuz and initrd to some linux partition fom 1st cd - modify grub to boot from that - select harddisk as install media - install directly from iso files
I find it a pain that I have to mount and copy the ISO contents before I can do a HTTP install. Is there a good technical reason why the installer can't read the ISOs directly? The alternative would be to mount the ISOs on the web server as directories: mount -o loop SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-x86_64-RC1-CD1.iso CD1 mount -o loop SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-x86_64-RC1-CD2.iso CD2 mount -o loop SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-x86_64-RC1-CD3.iso CD3 mount -o loop SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-x86_64-RC1-CD4.iso CD4 mount -o loop SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-x86_64-RC1-CD5.iso CD5 Also there is no baby ISO or floppy IMG to burn to do the boot before a HTTP/FTP install. Note lots of modern m/cs don't have floppy drives, so CD is the only removable media device from which to boot. I thought that there was one -- Simon Dales, Software Consultant "The impossible is easy"
Am Sonntag 11 September 2005 10:59 schrieb Simon Dales:
Also there is no baby ISO or floppy IMG to burn to do the boot before a HTTP/FTP install. Note lots of modern m/cs don't have floppy drives, so CD is the only removable media device from which to boot. I thought that there was one
There is a boot.iso which is 64.2 MB in size (for RC1). The file is located at inst-source/boot/boot.iso. This ISO is exactly built in order to do a net install. Yours, Daniel
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