Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Thu 29 May 2008 15:40:24 NZST +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote:
At present I am trying to install some stuff on a SLES (Suse Linux
Enterprise Server) box and when I go to do it, it demands that I
install from DVD.
As the server is some distance away and is actually a virtual one then
this is not impossible but a PITA.
As disk space is cheap, I'd copy the DVD to an iso file on disk and set
that up as another installation source. Faster to work with too.
Is there a standard online repository that I can set as a
"installation source" that will just work without having to shag about
with CD/DVDs?
For openSUSE yes, for SLES I'm not sure - but SLES comes with support,
why don't you ask there?
I believe that the copy we have is an evaluation copy so am not sure
about the support.
Are you telling me that the SLES is less convenient than the OpenSuse?
Just for the record, could you tell me the url for the OpenSuse
You could also copy the DVD onto a local ftp
server of your choice and share it out to the server, you get Internet
traffic only for what's actually used from the DVD.
Yes I suppose that we are going to have to do this.
If you only need to install a few more things and know what they are,
it's not that slow to just scp the packages across and to install them
with rpm.
It turned out that I could use my local DVD drive after all :-)
We're using VMWare and there is this thing where you can mount the local
drive on the server (ahem)... but it's still irritating!
Cheers,
Zane
