Re: [SLE] Installing SuSE10.0 from DVD on system with no boot-from-DVD

On Monday 10 October 2005 20:23, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* elefino [10-10-05 19:07]:

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Kevin (who's gone all day without getting 10.0 onto one miserable old PC)

sounds like the ?? eight ?? floppy disks would have been a better solutiion <grin>>>>>>..

What's that supposed to mean? I spent all day double and triple checking stupid shit that I was doing wrong, only to GET as far as learning that I need to mkbootdisk, which has "improved" such that it needs 6 or 7 more diskettes than were needed to start an install in SuSE 7.0. (ok, I took time to mow the lawn and do some laundry, which I was _supposed_ to have been doing while the DVD install was cranking) So, I'm not following you. Better solution than .... what? I ran mkbootdisk --help and it gave me a couple of examples of which the first/main one was "mkbootdisk /media/cdrom". So, I type almost exactly that. .. "mkbootdisk /media/SU1000_001" since the SuSE 10.0 DVD is already mounted there. Yes, I know that I'm making a big assumption that for a DVD boot floppy I should type the name of the actual drive where the DVD is mounted, but hey, that's the warped way my mind works.... I couldn't think of any way that made sense to leave it as "/cdrom"....... stupid, hunh? Anyway, nothing happens for a while, then "Writing 7 boot disks (32 bit, 46k free)". Then the shell prompt comes back. Whoopee. If it wrote 7 boot disk images somewhere, it didn't bother to tell _me_ where it put them. It better not have written them onto the SuSE 10.0 DVD (which shouldn't be writeable anyway...). It didn't prompt me for floppies in the floppy drive, so it wasn't trying to write there... Ok, so I don't know where it wrote, and I don't know what the files are called, to search for them... the man page will.... nope there's no man page. That's just extra-special helpful. That's an example of what I've been doing all day. You guys type one command, that you already knew, wait 34 seconds, and it's done. I tackle the same /p/r/o/b/l/e/m/ er... I mean... "opportunity to have a lot of fun", and spend the day accomplishing negative. Not just nothing, but actual negative. I haven't broken anything (that I know of...yet), but I've accomplished zero and I've acquired a monster of a headache. Hey, why don't I just use YaST on my other machine that already has 10.0 installed? That's got a module for creating boot diskettes... Nope. I get: "Insert SuSE Linux 10.0 DVD1 [X] Show details URL dvd:///;devices=/dev/hdc ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media)[/media.1/media] [OK] [Abort] [Skip] [Eject] " Hey, that's familiar. I had _that_ crap in 9.3, and they've saved it for me in 10.0, too. Did they have to write a special utility to create bogus entries in fstab? Kevin (not having what he'd call fun... no, but nice of you to ask... :-)