Version 8.0 installation from hard drive with YaST2 possible?
Thanks for the note, now can you tell me how it's done?
I ordered 8.0 , used "cp * -Rv /hda11/suse8.0
it shows up in the installation but when I select /hda11 it gives the error,
no installation medium found, if I go to another scree the error says
/hda11/:no such device
Could you please list the steps you used to do the installation from the hard
drive? Having done it a couple of times you probably remember it very well.
thanks in advance
joe
PS: It appears this is not covered under the free installation support with
the professional package, but I did not call SuSE to confirm that it is not
covered. They do mention the ftp installation is not covered, but nothing at
all about hard drive installation- I remember when they had instructions in
the manuals to do it.
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:10:45 +0200
From: Mads Martin Jørgensen
Does anyone know if version 8.0 of SuSE pro will allow paying customers the right to copy the installation disks to their hard drive and do a complete installtion and further updates directly from the hard drive?
I know, and it will. Used it a couple of times myself. -----------------------------------------------------------
* joe lerch (jl@dejazzd.com) [020425 14:07]:
Thanks for the note, now can you tell me how it's done? I ordered 8.0 , used "cp * -Rv /hda11/suse8.0
it shows up in the installation but when I select /hda11 it gives the error, no installation medium found, if I go to another scree the error says /hda11/:no such device
'cp *' won't copy the dot files which contain the version info. The safe way to do this is: (cd /cdrom && tar cf - .) | (cd /hda11/suse8.0 && tar xvfp -) The following SDB article explains how to setup a local NFS/ftp server: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/daniel_ftpinst_local.html -- -ckm
Christopher Mahmood
'cp *' won't copy the dot files which contain the version info.
'cp *' won't do, but 'cp -a' will get what he wants.
The safe way to do this is:
(cd /cdrom && tar cf - .) | (cd /hda11/suse8.0 && tar xvfp -)
Any special reason to do that in subshells? I'd do it as tar -C /cdrom -cf - . | tar -C /hda11/suse8.0 -xvfp - It's a *tad* bit shorter ;-)))) Philipp
* Philipp Thomas (pthomas@suse.de) [020425 16:34]:
Any special reason to do that in subshells? I'd do it as
tar -C /cdrom -cf - . | tar -C /hda11/suse8.0 -xvfp -
It's a *tad* bit shorter ;-))))
No no, I just copied and pasted from a script I use for this sort of thing where it's not always guaranteed that the destination will exist. You should have seen it before I removed the Useless Use of Cat's :) -- -ckm
On Thursday 25 April 2002 05:16 pm, you wrote:
it shows up in the installation but when I select /hda11 it gives the error, no installation medium found, if I go to another scree the error says /hda11/:no such device
'cp *' won't copy the dot files which contain the version info. The safe way to do this is:
(cd /cdrom && tar cf - .) | (cd /hda11/suse8.0 && tar xvfp -)
Thanks, I am using that command as I type this to recopy all the files to my harddisk. I also found one of my problems: The actual error message was mount: /dev/hda11:no such device I don't know how to get my current fstab in at boot time, so I waited until the installation was up enough to get to a bash prompt and copied my current fstab to /etc . oh - I had to load the ext3 driver before I could mount my SuSE 7.3 installation /etc directory. After doing this and selecting harddisk it came up and ask me for the directory, added suse8.0 and it loaded the installation. I didn't actually try to install anything yet, but it is looking much more promising. I will know more after I get the 7 cds copied to my /hda11/suse8.0 directory. thanks again for the help. joe
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