SUSE-Linux-9.3-mini-installation.iso on in-house network server ?
We copied the SuSE 9.3 double layer DVD iso to a 12Gb hard drive hdb on a 400mHz SuSE 9.3box. We mounted the iso image loopback, and exported an NFS directory named /93iso with a fixed address. We can read the contents of the iso from other boxes on the network. We want to connect recycled 600mHz boxes to the network and install 9.3 from the NFS server. SUSE-Linux-9.3-mini-installation.iso seems to be hard to find. We killed the server firewall and played with slpd. We can see whatever combinations of address+directory we put up for the server's slpd broadcast, but can't be sure we are putting up the correct information. We burned a 9.3-x86-64-Network-Installation.iso CD, but it doesn't want to use the 9.3 iso image on the server. Neither does a 9.2-mini-install CD. Google, the SuSE web page, and slpd documentation haven't gotten us success yet. Suggestions?
Stanley Long wrote:
We copied the SuSE 9.3 double layer DVD iso to a 12Gb hard drive hdb on a 400mHz SuSE 9.3box. We mounted the iso image loopback, and exported an NFS directory named /93iso with a fixed address. We can read the contents of the iso from other boxes on the network.
We want to connect recycled 600mHz boxes to the network and install 9.3 from the NFS server. SUSE-Linux-9.3-mini-installation.iso seems to be hard to find.
We killed the server firewall and played with slpd. We can see whatever combinations of address+directory we put up for the server's slpd broadcast, but can't be sure we are putting up the correct information.
I found, that unlike usual NFS shares & mounts, you have to specify the entire path from root. In my example, for the path I had to enter /home/SuSE_9.3/SuSE_9.3.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:00:09PM -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
We want to connect recycled 600mHz boxes to the network and install 9.3 from the NFS server. SUSE-Linux-9.3-mini-installation.iso seems to be hard to find.
No need to. Just boot off SUSE9.3 CD1, select Installation from the first menu, then abort it after it shows current system configuration. On the next menu load kernel module for your NIC, start installation, select Network and NFS, fill out all network information and there you go. No sweating. -Kastus
Kastus wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:00:09PM -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
We want to connect recycled 600mHz boxes to the network and install 9.3 from the NFS server. SUSE-Linux-9.3-mini-installation.iso seems to be hard to find.
No need to. Just boot off SUSE9.3 CD1, select Installation from the first menu, then abort it after it shows current system configuration.
On the next menu load kernel module for your NIC, start installation, select Network and NFS, fill out all network information and there you go.
I think we were stumbling around that CD-1 approach, but will re-try it.
No sweating.
We can hope :-) Thanks.
-Kastus
Kastus wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:00:09PM -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
We want to connect recycled 600mHz boxes to the network and install 9.3 from the NFS server. SUSE-Linux-9.3-mini-installation.iso seems to be hard to find.
No need to. Just boot off SUSE9.3 CD1, select Installation from the first menu, then abort it after it shows current system configuration.
On the next menu load kernel module for your NIC, start installation, select Network and NFS, fill out all network information and there you go.
And of course he can always make the seven (count 'em seven) install floppies. ;-)
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:55:12AM -0400, James Knott wrote:
And of course he can always make the seven (count 'em seven) install floppies. ;-)
Not true. As we are talking about network installation, all that's needed is kernel and initrd, which fit on one floppy. Appropriate NIC module might be missing in default initrd, then an extra floppy with modules is needed. And if NIC supports PXE, it's even easier to do install without any media. -Kastus
Kastus wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:00:09PM -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
We want to connect recycled 600mHz boxes to the network and install 9.3 from the NFS server. SUSE-Linux-9.3-mini-installation.iso seems to be hard to find.
No need to. Just boot off SUSE9.3 CD1, select Installation from the first menu, then abort it after it shows current system configuration.
On the next menu load kernel module for your NIC, start installation, select Network and NFS, fill out all network information and there you go.
No sweating.
-Kastus
The SuSE 9.3 CD got us into the NFS directory just fine, but ... we kept getting told we did not have permission to READ those files. IIR, they are all drwx-r-x-r-x root root One of us thought NFS too tricky, so we loaded Apache. Yep, YAST software install picked up the Apache RPMs from the iso on the HD. The html attempt fared no better than NFS. Does loopback mounting the iso do something to the permissions?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2005-06-18 at 22:26 -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
Does loopback mounting the iso do something to the permissions?
Why don't you simply copy the contens of the DVD image, as files? They are normal files... - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFCtWATtTMYHG2NR9URAmgiAJ9UtYSZCtgKXLKkT6dAqUabV/vqcQCfTMY3 c8UxG0TLkVZYPiWlODufLiQ= =ydfQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Sunday 19 June 2005 08:26, Stanley Long wrote:
Does loopback mounting the iso do something to the permissions?
No, but nfs might. Unless you use the export option no_root_squash, the remote root user (which the installation is using) will get translated to user "nobody", and if that user doesn't have permission to enter the directory, you will get permission denied Just a thought
Stanley Long <slong@customcpu.com> writes:
We copied the SuSE 9.3 double layer DVD iso to a 12Gb hard drive hdb on a 400mHz SuSE 9.3box. We mounted the iso image loopback, and exported an NFS directory named /93iso with a fixed address. We can read the contents of the iso from other boxes on the network. [...]
You can use the YaST Installserver Module - it does everything automatically, including the setup of the NFS, HTTP or FTP server and SLP announcements, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Stanley Long <slong@customcpu.com> writes:
We copied the SuSE 9.3 double layer DVD iso to a 12Gb hard drive hdb on a 400mHz SuSE 9.3box. We mounted the iso image loopback, and exported an NFS directory named /93iso with a fixed address. We can read the contents of the iso from other boxes on the network. [...]
You can use the YaST Installserver Module - it does everything automatically, including the setup of the NFS, HTTP or FTP server and SLP announcements,
Andreas The search option in YAST found "yast2-instserver". YAST grabbed it from the 9.3 iso on hdb1 and installed. SuSE's web page has a manual: Part 1. Installation / Ch. 3, Secial Installation Procedures http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/doc/suse/suse9.3/suselinux-adminguide_en/... As accessed from YAST; Misc; Installation Server, the procedure guides one through a setup including the copying of CD/DVD contents.
We already have a DVD iso dd'd to hdb1, and we want to keep it there for the dual use of burning copies and installations during the group meetings. The YAST procedure doesn't seem to allow configuring for the already loaded image. Chapter 30 of "SuSE Linux Internals http://www.bb-zone.com/SLGFG/chapter30.html may get closer to telling us what we mis configured the first time around.
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