В Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:05:28 -0500
Felix Miata
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Linuxrc
I've tried many times over the years, but from among the myriad of options available, I have never figured out how to put the pieces together to install from an installation ISO file available via Samba or NFS. Many linuxrc options are possible, but like in most man pages, examples are scarce, and inadequate for me to grok. Most if not all attempts before today were followed by success in either installing via HTTP (slower, but most frequent choice), or via copying the iso to local HD (clumsy), or via burning iso and booting from OM (clumsy and wasteful of plastic). Maybe once long ago I mounted the iso on the server and exported its mount point.
Following are my last 10 attempts that "Could not find the openSUSE Repository":
title Install SuSE 13.1 32bit DVD iso on NFS c kernel (hd0,0)/suse131/linux32 install=nfs://srvr/isos/openSUSE-13.1-DVD-i586.iso initrd (hd0,0)/suse131/initrd32
title Install SuSE 13.1 32bit DVD iso on NFS d kernel (hd0,0)/suse131/linux32 install=nfs://srvr/isos/openSUSE-13.1-DVD-i586.iso initrd (hd0,0)/suse131/initrd32
I expect these to work. Did you check root squash on NFS server?
title Install SuSE 13.1 32bit DVD iso on CIFS c kernel (hd0,0)/suse131/linux32 install=cifs://srvr/isos/openSUSE-13.1-DVD-i586.iso initrd (hd0,0)/suse131/initrd32
title Install SuSE 13.1 32bit DVD iso on SMB a kernel (hd0,0)/suse131/linux32 install=smb://srvr/isos/openSUSE-13.1-DVD-i586.iso initrd (hd0,0)/suse131/initrd32
First path component is a share; i.e. CIFS server must share path under name "isos". Of course, either you need to allow anonymous access or supply credentials. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org