Thanks to the wonders of computer technology, we now have large hard drives (80GB, say) that can hold the entire set of SuSE 8.0 distribution CD's many times over. It's easy enough to copy all the CDs to my hard drive. But once I've done that, how can I do installation and updating from those CD images rather than from the CDs themselves? Paul
Hi
Sorry I can´t help you, I only can say you are not alone, and nobody yet could give
the answer.
Let me gue, you try to set the installation source to a harddisk, but Yast2 is
unable to mount it.
I have made a litle research and the only way is through CD/DVD or ftp. I made it
using a local ftp. But than a tried to change the install media, but didn´t have
success.
With a litle reverse enginering I found something at InstMedia.ycp, but there is
still work to do.
I try to find out more here, I only become message saying that I should look at the
mail archive, but there is nothing helpful. (I think there are people who don´t
like this thema). There Only message saying how Yast2 suck and how it with rpm
work...........so you should work directly with it.
I hope you find somthing, and if you do, pleas send it to the list. I will do the
same.
Carlos Fangmeier
04/07/02 03:47:46 p.m., "Paul W. Abrahams"
Thanks to the wonders of computer technology, we now have large hard drives (80GB, say) that can hold the entire set of SuSE 8.0 distribution CD's many times over. It's easy enough to copy all the CDs to my hard drive. But once I've done that, how can I do installation and updating from those CD images rather than from the CDs themselves?
Paul
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On Thursday 04 July 2002 05:29 pm, Carlos Fangmeier wrote:
Hi
Sorry I can´t help you, I only can say you are not alone, and nobody yet could give the answer. Let me gue, you try to set the installation source to a harddisk, but Yast2 is unable to mount it. I have made a litle research and the only way is through CD/DVD or ftp. I made it using a local ftp. But than a tried to change the install media, but didn´t have success.
04/07/02 03:47:46 p.m., "Paul W. Abrahams"
wrote: Thanks to the wonders of computer technology, we now have large hard drives (80GB, say) that can hold the entire set of SuSE 8.0 distribution CD's many times over. It's easy enough to copy all the CDs to my hard drive. But once I've done that, how can I do installation and updating from those CD images rather than from the CDs themselves?
I hope that eventually SuSE will realize the value of supporting installation from hard-drive images of the CDs. If I ever discover the trick, I'll surely post it. But I can say this: under older versions of SuSE I was able to do some updates by combining parallel directories from the different CDs, in effect turning the 4 individual CDs into one huge one, and then specifying that huge CD as the installation source. But I have yet to succeed in updating to 8.0 (another topic) so I can't say anything about how to do it under 8.0. That assumes you've got about 6GB to spare to experiment with this (4 individual CD images plus the same amount of material in the combined image). Paul
I have enough space to play, but I´m angry with Yast2. I find out that, when Yast2
try to mount the disk, the function SCR::Read(...) (function MountMedia in
InstMedia.ycp module) return that the device is not a valid Suse device (some
unknow configuration files).........why, I don´t no, I hope in the following days I
will find out thar, simple force the return value and test it.
Maybe this help you to find something more about it.
Carlos Fangmeier
04/07/02 05:40:37 p.m., "Paul W. Abrahams"
On Thursday 04 July 2002 05:29 pm, Carlos Fangmeier wrote:
Hi
Sorry I can´t help you, I only can say you are not alone, and nobody yet could give the answer. Let me gue, you try to set the installation source to a harddisk, but Yast2 is unable to mount it. I have made a litle research and the only way is through CD/DVD or ftp. I made it using a local ftp. But than a tried to change the install media, but didn´t have success.
04/07/02 03:47:46 p.m., "Paul W. Abrahams"
wrote: Thanks to the wonders of computer technology, we now have large hard drives (80GB, say) that can hold the entire set of SuSE 8.0 distribution CD's many times over. It's easy enough to copy all the CDs to my hard drive. But once I've done that, how can I do installation and updating from those CD images rather than from the CDs themselves?
I hope that eventually SuSE will realize the value of supporting installation from hard-drive images of the CDs. If I ever discover the trick, I'll surely post it.
But I can say this: under older versions of SuSE I was able to do some updates by combining parallel directories from the different CDs, in effect turning the 4 individual CDs into one huge one, and then specifying that huge CD as the installation source. But I have yet to succeed in updating to 8.0 (another topic) so I can't say anything about how to do it under 8.0.
That assumes you've got about 6GB to spare to experiment with this (4 individual CD images plus the same amount of material in the combined image).
Paul
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Hello Carlos, I don't know about a complete installation, but I have copied all my SuSE 8.0 CDs to my hard drive and changed Yast's input to the hard drive and it is running just fine. Create directories /suse8.0/CD1 through /suse8.0/CD7 I used Midnight commander to do the data copies. Change Yast's input to /suse8.0/CD1 Ed <----------------- clip -------------------> -- Edwin O. Erdman Penguinista - Diagonally parked in a parallel universe !!! Registered Linux User# 135893 Machine#s 59387, 82657 SuSE 8.0 - KDE 3.0.1. - Kmail 1.4.1
Hello Edwin
Maybe there is the problem, becasuse I downloaded the versión of the FTP. My
problem that I´m unable to chage the instalationn media, I can´t mount the
partitión where the source files are.
I think that the people of SuSe did this on porpuse, soy you buy the box with th
CD´s.
I´m trying to find out where the configuration files are, becasue with a litle
research I find out that in my case Suse says that the media where the source are,
isn´t a valid device.
Maybe the solution is to get the Root file of a cd-distro of Suse, and copy all
config files.
Carlos Fangmeier
04/07/02 07:29:33 p.m., Edwin Erdman
Hello Carlos, I don't know about a complete installation, but I have copied all my SuSE 8.0 CDs to my hard drive and changed Yast's input to the hard drive and it is running just fine.
Create directories /suse8.0/CD1 through /suse8.0/CD7 I used Midnight commander to do the data copies. Change Yast's input to /suse8.0/CD1
Ed
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Hello Carlos, FWIW I didn't have to change any configuration files. I did it from within Yast. You might try one of the searchable archives of this list. I think there was some traffic a while ago about manually changing some yast configuration files. Ed On Friday 05 July 2002 09:23, Carlos Fangmeier wrote:
Hello Edwin
Maybe there is the problem, becasuse I downloaded the versión of the FTP. My problem that I´m unable to chage the instalationn media, I can´t mount the partitión where the source files are. I think that the people of SuSe did this on porpuse, soy you buy the box with th CD´s. I´m trying to find out where the configuration files are, becasue with a litle research I find out that in my case Suse says that the media where the source are, isn´t a valid device. Maybe the solution is to get the Root file of a cd-distro of Suse, and copy all config files.
Carlos Fangmeier
04/07/02 07:29:33 p.m., Edwin Erdman
wrote: Hello Carlos, I don't know about a complete installation, but I have copied all my SuSE 8.0 CDs to my hard drive and changed Yast's input to the hard drive and it is running just fine.
Create directories /suse8.0/CD1 through /suse8.0/CD7 I used Midnight commander to do the data copies. Change Yast's input to /suse8.0/CD1
Ed
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