Problems installing suse linux - no boot floppy
Hi, I have a server running redhat 6.2 which uses a scsi host adapter for the CDROM. I don't have a CD for the suse linux 8 install only cd's. I have tried creating a boot floppy via rawwritewin.exe on the suse CD #1 via windows XP, i put the floppy in the redhat machine along with suse cd #1 and boot, click manual install (none work) it gives me an error saying it can't read disk.... I have tried writing the i386 image file and creating the two modules floppy's, both of which just come back and say module disk #1 - unable to load, or module disk #2 - unable to load! Can somebody help me get suse on this server please. thankyou Damian Buckley
Hmmm... this would be covered by the README file on the boot directory on your SuSE CDs. I don't have the 8.0 CDs handy at the moment but both the 8.1 and 8.2 CDs will show the floppy images. Essentially, you use dd to transfer the image from the CD to the floppy. This should be most easily done on your rh 6.2 os. Cheers, Alex. On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Damian Buckley wrote:
Hi, I have a server running redhat 6.2 which uses a scsi host adapter for the CDROM. I don't have a CD for the suse linux 8 install only cd's. I have tried creating a boot floppy via rawwritewin.exe on the suse CD #1 via windows XP, i put the floppy in the redhat machine along with suse cd #1 and boot, click manual install (none work) it gives me an error saying it can't read disk.... I have tried writing the i386 image file and creating the two modules floppy's, both of which just come back and say module disk #1 - unable to load, or module disk #2 - unable to load! Can somebody help me get suse on this server please.
thankyou
Damian Buckley
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 4:32 am, Damian Buckley wrote:
Hi, I have a server running redhat 6.2 which uses a scsi host adapter for the CDROM. I don't have a CD for the suse linux 8 install only cd's.
Just what do you have? Your sentence above makes no sense. I have tried creating a boot floppy via rawwritewin.exe on the
suse CD #1 via windows XP, i put the floppy in the redhat machine along with suse cd #1 and boot, click manual install (none work)
None work? Does it boot or not?
it gives me an error saying it can't read disk....
The boot floppy or the CD?
I have tried writing the i386 image file and creating the two modules floppy's, both of which just come back and say module disk #1 - unable to load, or module disk #2 - unable to load! Can somebody help me get suse on this server please.
thankyou
Need more precise information as to what you have, what you are doing, and what doesn't work.
Damian Buckley
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Alex Angerhofer
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Bruce Marshall
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Damian Buckley