Hugo wrote:
Hi!
I have the DVD for 9.3 (and the 5 CD rom set as well)... but the laptop where I want to install 9.3 does not have CD drive (or DVD for that matter). How do I install?
I thought I'd boot with floppies and then set the installation source either over NFS from another SuSE 9.2 box or over samba from a windows laptop. But I just didn't find any floppies for 9.3? Maybe I looked from the wrong place? I did find them for the 9.2 (3 + 5 modules disks)... but I'd really like to run 9.3 as it has some programs and features that I'm really interested in.
In addition to floppies, I can boot the laptop to Knoppix with the Knoppix Terminal server (PXE-boot)... can I somehow start the installation of SuSE 9.3 from Knoppix?
I also have another server that has faulty CD drive (that can not be used to boot) and no DVD and I'd like to install the same SuSE 9.3 there also. So I believe that the same procedure applies.... I just do not know how to do it without the floppies that I didn't find. Maybe I'm just blind... can anybody help?
From /media/SU930_001/boot/README.DOS "Creating SUSE LINUX 9.3 Boot Disks ---------------------------------- The boot files are split across several floppy disks. To create boot disks, run 'mkbootdisk' (the program is in this directory) on a Linux system: 1. Mount CD1 or DVD (e.g. to /media/cdrom). 2. Run /media/cdrom/boot/mkbootdisk /media/cdrom to create boot disk image files bootdisk1 - bootdiskN. 3. Write these image files to floppies, using e.g. dd if=bootdisk1 of=/dev/fd0 (and bootdisk2 - bootdiskN accordingly). 4. A short usage summary of 'mkbootdisk' gives mkbootdisk --help"