Version 8.0 installation from hard drive with YaST2 possible?
"No installation data found on medium" "Could not mount the source medium" Previously I was alawya able to use the orginal YaST to do hard drive installation, I was never able to get YaST2 past the above errors, if I exit YaST2 and start YaST everything works fine. It has always been this way for me and I didn't mind as I like using YaST. However, I am told that version 8.0 will no longer have YaST. 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? If I have been skipping something, please let me know, it has been a while since I installed 7.3 my curent SuSe distro installation disks are on my /hda11/7.3 thanks in advacne joe
* joe lerch <jl@dejazzd.com> [Apr 16. 2002 12:06]:
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. -- Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.
Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
* joe lerch <jl@dejazzd.com> [Apr 16. 2002 12:06]:
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.
An alternative is just to dd the whole dvd image onto your hard drive and mount it using loopback. We do it this way here on one of our machines, and all of the machines use it over NFS... Likewise we use a mirror script to get the updates on a regular basis into our vault and install those from there on all our machines. (this is on 7.3, but no reason to expect 8.0 to break this) -- Rachel
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