On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:01:28AM +0100, Simon Jude wrote:
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 21:30 +0100, cl@isbd.net wrote:
So, can anyone tell me where I should point it and/or point me at some documentation?
No this is one of the things that really bugs me about Opensuse...the reason I think for this apparent madness is that they don't officially support doing a network installation over the internet, you are supposed to do it from a local mirror.
Anyway the path you need on any of the opensuse mirrors is
/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/
Plus of course whatever is on front of that (both the sites I looked at had at least two more directory levels).
take care because the mirrors address needs to be an IP address not a domain name.
So for example giving the ip address of 204.152.191.39 for the ftp host and the path as above should get you installing from mirrors.kernel.org
Many moons ago I did some installs using http and the mirror.ac.uk site http://www.mirror.ac.uk/platform/linux/ Have you tried this site?
I expect it will work. The Suse network install gives you a whole range of different protocols you can use, at least FTP, HTTP, Bittorrent and I think rsync and some more as well.