On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 22:16 +0200, Alexander S. Usov wrote:

why not do the install over ftp/http using the same image? Worked fine for me.

Utterly no idea how to set ftp up!! Only time I tried a couple of months ago using yast tools I totally failed to be able to do it - the installer simply didn't find the source on the server. In the end I managed to get a downloaded directory of 9.3 off the ftp server at a mirror onto my hard disk (shorn of the 64 bit stuff which I can't use) and that exported fine via nfs. 10.0 doesn't seem to exist in that form last time I looked at a mirror! I assume one has to set up the file server as an ftp server as well, with the export/suse/suse10.0 directory as the directory served up. I tried that (with 9.3) and the installer failed to find it. If it don't work in yast then I'm sunk without trace knowledge wise. And snatching 10 minutes here, 5 there, between small kids when I'm well enough to think (which with a long term illness a bit like FM/MS can be pretty seldom) means that the learning process is slow... I find most how-tos very difficult. I suspect they are written as aides memoires for tekkies to each other - i.e. you have to know how to do soemthing before you can understand the howto or help page, which just jogs the memory if can't quite recall the exact syntax etc. Not much use for the utterly ignorant and time-restrained! With ftp what sort of things need I be looking out for that could be making me trip up when doing it with yast? Or something I have to delve into an initiation or config file to twiddle about that yast won't do or won't do properly? And seeing as I don't have a clue where most of these things reside or what they are called anymore that can be problematic.

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 00:03 +0200, ktamp@cc.uoa.gr wrote:

Let's say you have user id = 1000 and group id = 1000. The easy way goes like this (this is what I did):

mkdir ~/suse mount xxxxxx.iso ~/suse -ouid=1000,gid=1000,loop

Thanks Konstantin, that bit works works OK, in that from the server where I just setup the loopback, a ls of the /suse directory (well, /suse10.0 in this instance) shows the contents of the dvd.iso. (How does this relate to the command hoaghi gives in his mounting the iso: mount -o loop /dadadadum.iso /anywhere; does the ouid and gid alter where the loop goes, or is the loop optional front or back of the command?).

ftpd -D

err just tried ftpd, came back with an error (this is in suse 9.3) saying "bash command not found". This is su'd into a terminal window as root immediately after executing the mount command given above. What is ftpd and where would it normally be resident? (I must get a grip of path commands in linux some day, old Dos was soooo easy to set up a path command...) Thanks for the help so far!

When the installer prompts you for your ftp server, give the corresponding IP address and log in with your username and password. When it asks for a directory, just enter "suse". Remember to remove the "/" it has by default or the source will not be found!

Konstantinos Tampouris

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Fiddling with this for hours and still no luck. Any thoughts what I am missing? Suspect its probably me :-((

Did you try to mount the iso with -ouid=<your user id>,gid=<your group id>? You can easily get your user id and group id whith the command "id". This is a must for ftp installation too, unless you have the time to set up an anonymous ftp server.