A friend of mine was trying to install SuSE over ftp and the PC's floppy drive was junk. So I wondered if you could use the boot images SuSE provides to create a bootable CD. Fact is you can and I was successful applying this method: http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/ with the 7.1 "bootdisk" image. I haven't used it yet but it works. I know you can do the same in Linux, probably easier as always =) Now I wondered has anybody tried to put all bootimages a SuSE ftp distro comes with on one CD and as well the modules disks. Putting all bootimages on CD together may be easy, but putting both modules disks on as well might be harder because they have the same file name references(?). I wonder if SuSE would in the future provide an image with its distro called "bootcd" which contains all image disks(bootdisk, i386, rescue, modules, modules2) from the disks directory. I think that would be quite useful. One CD instead of numerous floppies. One definite reason why this may be useful I can give. The bootable CD I created only contains the bootdisk image. It only has a limited amount of network card drivers. The rest are on modules and modules2. Now even if my friend with bad floppy drive can now boot the machine with the CD she may get stuck because she lacks a network card driver from a different disk. I haven't tried putting the modules on the same CD or creating another CD with it and if you could access it that way. I just thought this issue was kind of interesting. mk _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
I managed to create a bootable CD from Linux, containing most of a useful install. I downloaded selected parts of the SuSE ftp tree. Then I made a cdimage with mkisofs like: mkisofs -b disks/bootdisk -c boot.catalog -r -L /home/ole/download/suse/ Afterwards I burned it with cdrecord. The only problem was that for some reason Yast2 would not run, but I would probably have chosen to install with Yast1 anyway. I had also missed a few packages - even a couple of essential ones - like textutils and timezone - but after I had installed those, I now have a fully working system with almost all I need, and it does not require a fulltime CD-jockey to install. I am happy now. SuSE 7.1 is *so* much better than 6.3 :-) Regards Ole
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Ole Kofoed Hansen
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Purple Shirt