Well I'm making (slow!) progress.
The Ubuntu Edgy CD didn't do any better than the Ubuntu 6.06 one so I decided to try a network install.
I have put an RTL8139 based network card into the system and it's recognised by my Suse 10.1 mini-iso, hurrah!
After a few minor hiccoughs I have it configured and it can see the outside world. I have ven got as far as pointing it at an FTP site.
However I have one big problem, I can't find anywhere that tells me what directory of the FTP site I need to point it at. I can't find anyhwhere on the www.opensuse.org site that tells me where to get the files from when doing a network install.
It tells you how to do a *really* difficult install when you have no CD at all but doesn't tell you what to do when you've booted from the mini-iso CD.
So, can anyone tell me where I should point it and/or point me at some documentation?
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/
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
Have a lot of fun. Wayne
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/
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?
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.
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