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With those releases I could do a basic install via CD. If later I needed to add the yast packages I found of interest I had 100% success install the additional packages via yast and the official online source.
With 10.0 I found this NOT to be true. I had several packages I wanted to install to CD only machines. Since the packages were only on the DVD, I tried the above sites you mention. The did NOT contain the packages I was looking for.
I ended up buying an external DVD drive so I could move it around from machine to machine so I could have access to the full 10.0 retail package. I consider that a definite step backwords in the SUSE distro mechanism.
FYI: I posted about this on this list several times. Typically I used the example of mt_st not being available on the sites you listed, but there were others.
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Yours probably was a different thing, but I have a system that I built as just a network server (no cd/dvd) and was wondering about doing an ftp install. Couldn't I copy the dvd to a drive in my network, and ftp from the server to it, for an install? I'd like to, then move the image over to the new file server, so I don't have to pull out the disk.
lerninlinux@comcast.net wrote:
I have a system that I built as just a network server (no cd/dvd) and
I run a number of systems purely as servers - they all have a CDROM drive. I think they all have floppy-drives too, but I'm not certain. Not to say you need to do that, but it's pretty handy in many situations. (none of these boot from USB, otherwise I probably would have been experimenting with putting the installation on a USB-stick).
was wondering about doing an ftp install. Couldn't I copy the dvd to a drive in my network, and ftp from the server to it, for an install?
Something like that, but how are you going to start the install system? You'll need to boot that from somewhere. Maybe use the mini-boot-iso on a USB-stick? (I don't know if that'll work). /Per Jessen, Zürich
On Monday 03 April 2006 16:38, Per Jessen wrote:
Something like that, but how are you going to start the install system? You'll need to boot that from somewhere. Maybe use the mini-boot-iso on a USB-stick? (I don't know if that'll work).
I have set up an Installation Server using the retail DVD, which is quite simple to setup using Yast. To install a new computer I just use a boot CD to start an installation via NFS. (I used the boot image off the DVD to create the boot CD) If you have a few systems to install I suggest you look at the SuSE-Autoinstall function, with this you can define the software to be installed as well as alter the config scripts to suit your installation. You will find good support via the suse-autoinstall@suse.com mailing list. -- Regards, Graham Smith
Graham Smith wrote:
I have set up an Installation Server using the retail DVD, which is quite simple to setup using Yast.
To install a new computer I just use a boot CD to start an installation via NFS. (I used the boot image off the DVD to create the boot CD)
Pretty much what I do too. I just use CD1 to boot off. Not having the CDROM drive to boot from is too much hassle, IMHO. But I'd be tempted to try to put the mini-boot-iso on a USB stick.
If you have a few systems to install I suggest you look at the SuSE-Autoinstall function, with this you can define the software to be installed as well as alter the config scripts to suit your installation. You will find good support via the suse-autoinstall@suse.com mailing list.
I have toyed with using autoyast a couple of times, and although it would be pretty handy, I don't really do enough installs to warrant the effort in setting it up etc. /Per Jessen, Zürich
Per Jessen wrote:
But I'd be tempted to try to put the mini-boot-iso on a USB stick.
As it turns out - piece of cake. Nothing to it. I had a 128M USB stick (marketing present) on my desk and after some minimal research I found the "mkbootdisk" on the mini-iso in /boot/i386/. My USB disk comes up as /dev/sda, and I had the mini-iso mounted at /mnt, so: /mnt/boot/i386/mkbootdisk --32 --partition /dev/sda1 /mnt Works absolutely fine. /Per Jessen, Zürich
hi, I have a quite complex c++ program packet. It works under Linux. It can be compiled and developed using IDE KDeveloper (SuSE 10). Unfortunately, the help of the IDE KDev is very poor so I decided to continue developing in Windows using Windows Visual studio 2005. I have no experience with this so I would like to ask somebody for small assistance. First of all, is it possible at all to move codes from one platform to another? I suppose it is. How to do it? Thanks for help in advance oliver
vince@complex.elte.hu wrote:
hi,
I have a quite complex c++ program packet. It works under Linux. It can be compiled and developed using IDE KDeveloper (SuSE 10). Unfortunately, the help of the IDE KDev is very poor so I decided to continue developing in Windows using Windows Visual studio 2005.
You could try Eclipse instead. It's pretty good, also for C and C++. /Per Jessen, Zürich
lerninlinux@comcast.net wrote:
Yours probably was a different thing, but I have a system that I built as just a network server (no cd/dvd) and was wondering about doing an ftp install. Couldn't I copy the dvd to a drive in my network, and ftp from the server to it, for an install? I'd like to, then move the image over to the new file server, so I don't have to pull out the disk.
I use network install here. I copied the DVD to my hard drive and used NFS to share it. Works well.
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