Hi guys, We're preparing a linux course using SUSE. There's a samba install option. How do I setup the source for this? The installer complains about not finding the image. I'm working off the contents copied from the DVD. Is there anywhere where this is documented? My searches only turn up info on samba itself, not installing SUSE from a samba share Thank you -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
Hans wrote regarding '[SLE] Setup SUSE install source on Samba' on Fri, Aug 20 at 15:44:
Hi guys,
We're preparing a linux course using SUSE. There's a samba install option. How do I setup the source for this? The installer complains about not finding the image. I'm working off the contents copied from the DVD.
Is there anywhere where this is documented? My searches only turn up info on samba itself, not installing SUSE from a samba share
In lieu of anyone who actually knows how, I'm gonna guess that you need to set it up just like an FTP/HTTP/NFS install. You need the contents of the "suse" directory to be in a directory named "suse", and then you pass the installer the path to the directory that contains "suse". So, copy "suse" from the DVD and point the installer at the place you copied it to. --Danny, cc-ing OP since it's been a few days...
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 23:38, Danny Sauer wrote:
Hans wrote regarding '[SLE] Setup SUSE install source on Samba' on Fri, Aug
We're preparing a linux course using SUSE. There's a samba install option. How do I setup the source for this? The installer complains about not finding the image. I'm working off the contents copied from the DVD.
Is there anywhere where this is documented? My searches only turn up info on samba itself, not installing SUSE from a samba share
In lieu of anyone who actually knows how, I'm gonna guess that you need to set it up just like an FTP/HTTP/NFS install. [snip]
Sorry for my late reply. This is exactly what I did. We set up ftp, http and nfs on a notebook (to be able to move it between classes easily) all using the same directory. I added that as a samba share, but the installers wouldn't pick it up. This is of course of academic value now, because that class is long over, but I would still be interested if someone knows what the catch with this is. I remember in Red Hat 7.x you could install of the CD images if they were on the hard drive. I wonder if this isn't similar - that the install-from-samba module isn't perhaps looking for the disc images instead of the contents. Problem then is it would look for a specific image name (as the RH installer did), which I don't know because SUSE doesn't make the ISOs available. Just a theory.... Thanks for your reply -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za
Hans wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Setup SUSE install source on Samba' on Tue, Sep 07 at 03:19:
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 23:38, Danny Sauer wrote:
Hans wrote regarding '[SLE] Setup SUSE install source on Samba' on Fri, Aug
We're preparing a linux course using SUSE. There's a samba install option. How do I setup the source for this? The installer complains about not finding the image. I'm working off the contents copied from the DVD.
Is there anywhere where this is documented? My searches only turn up info on samba itself, not installing SUSE from a samba share
In lieu of anyone who actually knows how, I'm gonna guess that you need to set it up just like an FTP/HTTP/NFS install. [snip]
Sorry for my late reply. This is exactly what I did. We set up ftp, http and nfs on a notebook (to be able to move it between classes easily) all using the same directory. I added that as a samba share, but the installers wouldn't pick it up. This is of course of academic value now, because that class is long over, but I would still be interested if someone knows what the catch with this is.
I remember in Red Hat 7.x you could install of the CD images if they were on the hard drive. I wonder if this isn't similar - that the install-from-samba module isn't perhaps looking for the disc images instead of the contents. Problem then is it would look for a specific image name (as the RH installer did), which I don't know because SUSE doesn't make the ISOs available. Just a theory....
You could always turn on verbose logging on the samba server and see what the client's looking for, couldn't you? --Danny, bumping up the log level
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