houghi wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 09:56:21AM +0100, jdd wrote: > <snip> >> http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD > <snip> > > I can not comment on the other issues. Sorry. > > What is confusing about that page? What you need to do is the following: > > You need a partition of say 5GB to place the stuff you want to install and > that won't be formatted during installation.
false. you need only a partition of 700Mb to copy the first cd (tried 1 hour ago). most of all, I didn't find (may be it is, but cloaked :-) an exposure of the meaning of all that. as a summary it should say: You have no cd available for whatever reason at boot time, but can copy stuff on the hard drive. What do you need _at minimum_: * room for at least 700Mo (copy of the first cd or of it's iso image). This can be on any partition, readable by you. * enough room in an other partition to install the new SUSE Linux. * a running Linux *- on the very same computer *- from the boot floppies of any SUSE Linux what is the meaning of this: > e.g. if that is your /home partition, then use that. If you do not have > such a partition, it won't work. > > Say you have /dev/hda3 mounted as /home, then you could do: > makeSUSEdvd -i -s /home/user/SUSE if you make an install, you are root! so you can use any directory. for the simpler way, a directory from / is better (ie /suse10). I can't have makedvd. think that if you don't have a cd, you probably don't have neither a recent computer, so probably not room for a dvd nor power to compile it with makedvd. My one have 4Gb spare (for the source and the install), a P233... and 43Mb ram (wich seems to prevent 10.0 from installing, see below) > > Next edit /etc/fstab to include what makeSUSEdvd tells you. an example!! what makedvd is going to do??? is it making an iso dvd? if so why dont copy the iso dvd right there in the first place? do you make a loop mount? can you boot from an image (this should be nice and advertised in the first place) and how? most of all, I don't bother to risk my present install before being sure that all this is good. I don't like the idea of modifying grub. can I do this on the command line? whith the slackware floppy? with only one grub floppy? any step should be clear. to not be too long, I can't explain all. The simpler way is to: create /suse on an ext2 partition (no module to load at boot time) copy there the first cd (many solutions) burn the SUSE boot floppies, any distribution, old ones are best (less cd) - the better is the one of the same age than the computer :-) boot from floppies, manual install, set language, install, from disk (shows partitions) /suse...and go on... you should have a running SUSE and be able to install the rest. if you can boot from an image, it's much better, floppies are horrible. and 10.0 fails with errors (on the F4 console) - 43Mb ram, 250Mg swap seems not to suffice (9.1 runs perfectly) - 3 tries. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
