On Wednesday 27 June 2007 18:15, John wrote:
Hello, Have you resolved the problem?
Hi Fajar,
Well, am I embarrassed or what?? I was "sort of" trying to cut corners, and making big assumptions. First (and main) big assumption was that you can use an earlier version of boot disk to install across the network.... I was trying to use CD#1, Suse 10.0 to kick off the install. Obviously this won't work, as when I eventually got a CD#1,10.2 it worked... Admittedly SLP still wouldn't work (??), and I only got SMB working by mapping the drive manually..... But it worked!! Seems like a bit of overkill having to download the whole CD#1 just to boot, but I couldn't figure out how else to do it. From lots of Googling and forum browsing, I couldn't find an "idiots guide" to how to network install. Network install gets "mentioned" a lot, but the actual method for doing it is not easily available.... Ah well, I'll remember this next time, anyway!!
I'm not sure about Suse10.0, but I use Opensuse10.1 CD #1 to do network install of 10.1 (of course), 10.2, and SLED10, SLES10. All work. To do network install, I boot the PC, and when the nice welcome screen of OpenSuse appears, I type in the options: Install=nfs://10.0.0.30:/srv/www/htdocs/pub hostip=10.0.0.50 netmask=255.255.255.0 We can even put autoyast=nfs://10.0.0.30:/autoyast/template.xml for automatic install. Suse is very cool. Of course, we should put all the contents of Opensuse10.2 CD into /srv/www/htdocs/pub and make the NFS export of it on 10.0.0.30 first. I love to do network install. Thanks Suse. BTW, the resouce for network install is in http://www.opensuse.org web, just search for "network install". -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 6:43pm up 11:09, 2.6.18.2-34-default GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org