Bahram wrote regarding '[SLE] Fail to install from hard-disk' on Wed, Aug 18 at 09:26:
Please send some answers to these questions: [...] 3- Why is a chameleon as the logo of company? 4- How does that reptile relate to the word "SuSE"?
The logo was a Chamelon for a long time, and was named "Geeko" a few years back by some users who voted for the stupidest name possible.
6- This is the main query: I want to install SuSE 9.1 without CD-DRIVE (only with iso images):
6-a- I made ISO images of 5 installation CDs by "WinISO",
6-b- I made 3 boot floppies from inside the 1st CD,
6-c- I booted these floppies and selected "Manual Installation" and "Hard Disk",
6-d- I selected the partition containing images,
6-e- The installation can not continue and returns me to partition selection!
Must the ISO images have a special file-name? How can I verify that my images are valid?
You can't do it (easily) with disk images. What you want to do is copy the first disk to a folder and then copy the contents of the "suse" folder from the other disks into that folder's "suse" folder.
Note1: The partition containing images has a FAT32 format.
This is fine.
Note2: I have achieved this type of installation easily in RedHat.
Great. Redhat is dead, as far as personal users are concerned, and SuSE can also be installed from hard drive pretty easily.
Note3: In RedHat, you don't need to make floppy disks; It has an installation utility able to run directly from hard-disk under DOS.
There's a bootable CD image in the boot/ folder if a floppy is a problem. Make a cd from boot.iso and have fun. There used to be a DOS install.exe program on the SuSE disks, too, but I guess maybe it's gone or something. --Danny