I have a pretty unique situation. I need to be able to dump the contents of the CDs onto a partition and boot from that partition and install. Do I do the "makesusedvd" and copy the contents of the DVD and set the partition as active or do I run "makesusedvd -s or -i?
I want to Install Suse 10 on my Sony Vaio that has cdrom drive and no floppy drive. I have MS Windows 2000 Installed on the first partition of hard drive and the second partition is storage space. I can copy the contents of the CDs onto the second hard drive. Or I can take out the hard drive and kill the first partition and copy the basic windows 95 boot file with Backpack CDROM support. Other that that I'm at a loss at how to install form there. I rather know how to install via hard drive. On 3/18/06, houghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 05:10:17PM +0100, Mathias Homann wrote: > > does it work with beta 8? > > Others already have given the URL. With me it works for Beta8 and all > other SUSEs, exept the SLES. That will be available in a later version. he > main reason is that they do not begin with SUSE...iso > > Unfortunatly no PPC version. > > What I do for testing purposes is put all 6 CDs in one directory with > softlinks (from the place where I downloaded them to) and then : > makeSUSEdvd -o dvd -a /usr/src/packages/RPMS/ > This puts the iso I want to burn (or mount) in the directory dvd and adds > the RPMs I have in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/* on the DVD as well. > > For real what I use is http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_without_CD. > This means I run it as: > makeSUSEdvd -a /usr/src/packages/RPMS/noarch/ -i -s ~/opensuse/10.1_B8 > > Next I can reboot and install witouth the need to burn a DVD. Remember > that then it should be on a partition you are not going to format, because > it is very hard to read data from a partition you just formatted. ;-) > > If there are any problems with makeSUSEdvd, please mail me. Also > sugestions are welcome. It would be great if somebody could make a PPC > version from it. I do not have a PPC, so I can not try out, test or do > anything. > > houghi > -- > Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es > ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk > und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun > - Johannes Müller-Elmau > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
