I have enough space to play, but I´m angry with Yast2. I find out that, when Yast2
try to mount the disk, the function SCR::Read(...) (function MountMedia in
InstMedia.ycp module) return that the device is not a valid Suse device (some
unknow configuration files).........why, I don´t no, I hope in the following days I
will find out thar, simple force the return value and test it.
Maybe this help you to find something more about it.
Carlos Fangmeier
04/07/02 05:40:37 p.m., "Paul W. Abrahams"
On Thursday 04 July 2002 05:29 pm, Carlos Fangmeier wrote:
Hi
Sorry I can´t help you, I only can say you are not alone, and nobody yet could give the answer. Let me gue, you try to set the installation source to a harddisk, but Yast2 is unable to mount it. I have made a litle research and the only way is through CD/DVD or ftp. I made it using a local ftp. But than a tried to change the install media, but didn´t have success.
04/07/02 03:47:46 p.m., "Paul W. Abrahams"
wrote: Thanks to the wonders of computer technology, we now have large hard drives (80GB, say) that can hold the entire set of SuSE 8.0 distribution CD's many times over. It's easy enough to copy all the CDs to my hard drive. But once I've done that, how can I do installation and updating from those CD images rather than from the CDs themselves?
I hope that eventually SuSE will realize the value of supporting installation from hard-drive images of the CDs. If I ever discover the trick, I'll surely post it.
But I can say this: under older versions of SuSE I was able to do some updates by combining parallel directories from the different CDs, in effect turning the 4 individual CDs into one huge one, and then specifying that huge CD as the installation source. But I have yet to succeed in updating to 8.0 (another topic) so I can't say anything about how to do it under 8.0.
That assumes you've got about 6GB to spare to experiment with this (4 individual CD images plus the same amount of material in the combined image).
Paul
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