I have a pretty unique situation. I need to be able to dump the contents of the CDs onto a partition and boot from that partition and install. Do I do the "makesusedvd" and copy the contents of the DVD and set the partition as active or do I run "makesusedvd -s or -i? I want to Install Suse 10 on my Sony Vaio that has cdrom drive and no floppy drive. I have MS Windows 2000 Installed on the first partition of hard drive and the second partition is storage space. I can copy the contents of the CDs onto the second hard drive. Or I can take out the hard drive and kill the first partition and copy the basic windows 95 boot file with Backpack CDROM support. Other that that I'm at a loss at how to install form there. I rather know how to install via hard drive. On 3/18/06, houghi wrote:

On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 05:10:17PM +0100, Mathias Homann wrote:

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does it work with beta 8?

Others already have given the URL. With me it works for Beta8 and all other SUSEs, exept the SLES. That will be available in a later version. he main reason is that they do not begin with SUSE...iso

Unfortunatly no PPC version.

What I do for testing purposes is put all 6 CDs in one directory with softlinks (from the place where I downloaded them to) and then : makeSUSEdvd -o dvd -a /usr/src/packages/RPMS/ This puts the iso I want to burn (or mount) in the directory dvd and adds the RPMs I have in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/* on the DVD as well.

For real what I use is http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD. This means I run it as: makeSUSEdvd -a /usr/src/packages/RPMS/noarch/ -i -s ~/opensuse/10.1_B8

Next I can reboot and install witouth the need to burn a DVD. Remember that then it should be on a partition you are not going to format, because it is very hard to read data from a partition you just formatted. ;-)

If there are any problems with makeSUSEdvd, please mail me. Also sugestions are welcome. It would be great if somebody could make a PPC version from it. I do not have a PPC, so I can not try out, test or do anything.

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I'm sorry typo. I ment that system has neither a cdrom drive nor a floppy drive. On Monday 20 March 2006 02:43 pm, jdd wrote:

Donald Ade wrote:

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I have a pretty unique situation.

I don't think so. Many people are/where on this situation :-)

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I want to Install Suse 10 on my Sony Vaio that has cdrom drive and no floppy drive.

the simpler way, at least in term of explanations should be to copy the cd to rewritable media and install from there.

but there are many other methods. lurking around the dowload link of opensuse.org could allow you to choose the best one to fit your needs.

I have MS Windows 2000 Installed on the first partition

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of hard drive and

is the partition NTFS or fat32? in the latter case you can do most from the hard drive

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the second partition is storage space. I can copy the contents of the CDs onto the second hard drive.

second partition or second hard drive (on a laptop?)

you don't say what size are the partitions. for a pleasant 10.0 install 20Gb is all one can need, but 4Gb could do a small one and 10Gb is good (it's what I have)

if you can use the second partition, at least in part, for SUSE Linux, no problem. you can prepare this during the install

jdd

On Monday 20 March 2006 03:58 pm, jdd wrote:

Donald Ade wrote:

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I'm sorry typo. I ment that system has neither a cdrom drive nor a floppy drive.

well. should you have answered my other questions, the answer could be easier...

*here the easiest way is probably to get out the HD, connect it to an other computer and run from there. Install grub on the drive mbr and you'll be able to boot from your computer drive (a little tricky but no so difficult)

*you can also go to www.vmware.com, download the free vmware server and install suse in it (very easy).

*loan a usb bootable drive if any (easier, 1 hour is enough. Most PC vendor could accomodate an one hour loan!)

these are the only I think of available to anybody.

But if I had to do that, I could try:

* download a single boot cd distribution (there is one for SUSE, but's a dvd), make a separate partition just as big as needed to copy the cd/dvd to it (as an image, not as a file, with windows flavor of dd). manage to boot from it using windows - not easy but probably doable

* may be simpler look google for an usb bootable linux distro (there are several)

in fact, you need a way to boot any linux. From there you can launch grub and boot any disk image

jdd

LOL. jdd your gonna hate me for this one but oops I also forgot to mentioned no boot options except HD. My problem is that I'm looking at it (right next to me) and in my head I think people can see it or know its problems. Anyways, like I said its a Sony Vaio. To be more specific: Sony Vaio PCG-Z505LS laptop 750 MHz 256 MB RAM 20 GB HD (split 7.7GB (W2K sp4 (fat32)/ 11GB (storage(fat32)) bios locked (don't ask), No cdrom, No floppy I think I'm going to buy a 20GB and install via another computer as you suggested. I can go the vmware route but I'm worried about performance.

On Monday 20 March 2006 12:08, houghi wrote:

... Please do not toppost.

Please use only real English words. Hyphenated compound terms are acceptable. RRS

On 3/20/06, Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) wrote:

Em Seg, 2006-03-20 às 14:24 -0500, Donald Ade escreveu:

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I want to Install Suse 10 on my Sony Vaio that has cdrom drive and no

So you mean you can't boot off your PCMCIA CDROM? I'm asking because it's a very common situation with Vaio. In this case, you just need to use "ide1=0x180,0x386" (or ide2) on the boot options and be happy. :)

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I don't know if it boots from PCMCIA. I do know that it didn't boot from the proprietary sony cdrom drive, I don't want to spend any money on this thing.

On Monday 20 March 2006 19:07, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Donald Ade wrote:

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On 3/20/06, Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) wrote:

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Em Seg, 2006-03-20 às 14:24 -0500, Donald Ade escreveu:

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I want to Install Suse 10 on my Sony Vaio that has cdrom drive and no

So you mean you can't boot off your PCMCIA CDROM? I'm asking because it's a very common situation with Vaio. In this case, you just need to use "ide1=0x180,0x386" (or ide2) on the boot options and be happy. :)

I don't know if it boots from PCMCIA. I do know that it didn't boot from the proprietary sony cdrom drive, I don't want to spend any money on this thing.

It does boot from the proprietary sony cdrom drive, but you have to connect it and then enable/configure it in BIOS before it does.

Cheers -e

BIOS is locked so...no boot other then HD. -dade

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 23:22 -0500, Donald Ade wrote:

On Monday 20 March 2006 19:07, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

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Hi,

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Donald Ade wrote:

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On 3/20/06, Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) wrote:

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Em Seg, 2006-03-20 às 14:24 -0500, Donald Ade escreveu:

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I want to Install Suse 10 on my Sony Vaio that has cdrom drive and no

So you mean you can't boot off your PCMCIA CDROM? I'm asking because it's a very common situation with Vaio. In this case, you just need to use "ide1=0x180,0x386" (or ide2) on the boot options and be happy. :)

I don't know if it boots from PCMCIA. I do know that it didn't boot from the proprietary sony cdrom drive, I don't want to spend any money on this thing.

It does boot from the proprietary sony cdrom drive, but you have to connect it and then enable/configure it in BIOS before it does.

Cheers -e

BIOS is locked so...no boot other then HD.

Isn't there a reset for the BIOS that would remove the lock? I would think that there would be even if it requires you to do a partial disassemble of the laptop. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998