Hi! I bought the DVD version of 6.4. Nice for two reasons. First one being that a lot of the bugs in the CD version seem to have been fixed before shipping of the DVD version. :-) Second one being the obvious that I don't have to swap CDs all the time. :-) :-) BUT... (There is always one of those ;-) I have a couple of machines without DVD readers. One is on the net, no problem. I hope. Not there yet. But I also have a machine that is unconnected that is in need of a SUSE fix. I planned to copy the DVD to CDs to make this possible, as well getting myself a backup of the DVD. How do I get the contents on the DVD on to 6 CDs as to make it possible to boot and install from them? Any pointers {and|or} intructions are welcome. TJo <HR> <UL> <LI>APPLICATION/pgp-signature attachment: stored </UL> -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I recomend you to mount the DVD and share it with NFS and install SuSE in the other computers using NFS (if it is applicable to you). Carlos Tryggve Johannesson wrote:
Hi!
I bought the DVD version of 6.4. Nice for two reasons. First one being that a lot of the bugs in the CD version seem to have been fixed before shipping of the DVD version. :-) Second one being the obvious that I don't have to swap CDs all the time. :-) :-)
BUT... (There is always one of those ;-)
I have a couple of machines without DVD readers. One is on the net, no problem. I hope. Not there yet. But I also have a machine that is unconnected that is in need of a SUSE fix.
I planned to copy the DVD to CDs to make this possible, as well getting myself a backup of the DVD.
How do I get the contents on the DVD on to 6 CDs as to make it possible to boot and install from them?
Any pointers {and|or} intructions are welcome.
TJo
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You could copy the contents to a hard drive , make a boot disk , and mount the hard drive. How meny megs is there on the dvd disk ? At 06:38 PM 5/29/2000 +0200, Tryggve Johannesson wrote:
Hi!
I bought the DVD version of 6.4. Nice for two reasons. First one being that a lot of the bugs in the CD version seem to have been fixed before shipping of the DVD version. :-) Second one being the obvious that I don't have to swap CDs all the time. :-) :-)
BUT... (There is always one of those ;-)
I have a couple of machines without DVD readers. One is on the net, no problem. I hope. Not there yet. But I also have a machine that is unconnected that is in need of a SUSE fix.
I planned to copy the DVD to CDs to make this possible, as well getting myself a backup of the DVD.
How do I get the contents on the DVD on to 6 CDs as to make it possible to boot and install from them?
Any pointers {and|or} intructions are welcome.
TJo
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On 30 Maj, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
You could copy the contents to a hard drive , make a boot disk , and mount the hard drive.
How meny megs is there on the dvd disk ?
At 06:38 PM 5/29/2000 +0200, Tryggve Johannesson wrote:
I have a couple of machines without DVD readers. One is on the net, no problem. I hope. Not there yet. But I also have a machine that is unconnected that is in need of a SUSE fix.
I planned to copy the DVD to CDs to make this possible, as well getting myself a backup of the DVD.
How do I get the contents on the DVD on to 6 CDs as to make it possible to boot and install from them?
Yes, but that was not the problem. The problem is the unconnected machine. I have a CD reader on that one and thats it. No net. Besides I still feel like it would be nice to have a backup in case I make a scratch on the DVD. As for how much there is on the DVD. All of the 6 CDs. That equals to about 4.6 GB. TJo <HR> <UL> <LI>APPLICATION/pgp-signature attachment: stored </UL> -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Tryggve Johannesson wrote:
Yes, but that was not the problem. The problem is the unconnected machine. I have a CD reader on that one and thats it. No net.
Besides I still feel like it would be nice to have a backup in case I make a scratch on the DVD.
As for how much there is on the DVD. All of the 6 CDs. That equals to about 4.6 GB.
TJo
-=-=-=-=- Hi TJo I don't have the SuSE DVD and I don't know how it's organized but I'll give it a try. I'll send you with personal mail the INDEX.gz (50k) which contains the continents of the 6 CD's so you'll need to copy the data from the DVD to the hard drive according to the INDEX create the iso images and burn them to the CD's. To make the first CD bootable you'll give to mkisofs the option -b 'path/with/the/contenets/of/CD1/disks/bootdisk' (bootdisk is of course the boot disk from which you'll boot ;-) Not 100% sure that it will work. The biggest problem will be to convince YaST that there are 6 CD's not one. If during the install YaST doesn't see the other CD's boot the system with the minimum install (the packages installed from CD1) and then try to install the rest of system. Good luck Nicholas ps. If that doesn't work you can always try your athletic skills in throwing disks ;-) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
NFS export the cd from a box on thet LAN. That should work. There is a Install from NFS in the detup if i'mnot misstaken.. -- --------------------------------------------- Rikard "Rjhn" Johnels mail: rjhn@linux.nu +46 70 464 99 13 icq: 11022530 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, If possible, i think it is best to install your DVD-drive in that machine. Install SuSE. And finally, put the DVD-drive back where you found it. Reinder Tryggve Johannesson wrote:
Hi!
I bought the DVD version of 6.4. Nice for two reasons. First one being that a lot of the bugs in the CD version seem to have been fixed before shipping of the DVD version. :-) Second one being the obvious that I don't have to swap CDs all the time. :-) :-)
BUT... (There is always one of those ;-)
I have a couple of machines without DVD readers. One is on the net, no problem. I hope. Not there yet. But I also have a machine that is unconnected that is in need of a SUSE fix.
I planned to copy the DVD to CDs to make this possible, as well getting myself a backup of the DVD.
How do I get the contents on the DVD on to 6 CDs as to make it possible to boot and install from them?
Any pointers {and|or} intructions are welcome.
TJo
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