| 1. |
I have downloaded the whole SuSE-Directory from ftp.suse.com to my
Windows' box, how do I install the distribution? |
| Try out this Dos-Batchfile: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/VERSION/dosutils/lhdsetup.bat |
| 2. | I've downloaded SuSE 7.3 to my hard disk and tried to install a new
system from there. No success. |
| Solution What you have to do to overcome the above situation: -
Download (from an FTP site) or copy (from your CD-ROM) the
necessary directories to your HD. I found the gunzipping of
suse/images/root to suse/setup/inst-img not to be necessary, as
in earlier releases.
-
Make your boot diskette (.../suse/disks/bootdisk), and module
diskettes, if needed.
-
Boot the diskette.
-
The very important step: After language etc. selection, go
to 'Settings'/'Debug (expert)'/'Load rootimage into ramdisk' and
choose 'yes'.
-
Proceed with the installation. When asked, specify the
partition and directory of your install directory. Now, the root
image should be successfully loaded, and the installation should be
continued as normal.
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| 3. | How can I make the SuSE 8.0 installation via NFS ?
|
|
Nick Selby
The NFS issue I asked about has been solved (thanks Damian for that last little
bit of the puzzle!). A recap for those who search this list later for answers
about installing Linux to a machine over a network using NFS (man exports;
man mount; man fstab; man nfs for more info):
-
Took the SuSE 8.0 DVD and copied out the bootdisk, modules1, modules2,
modules3 disks onto floppies from my windows machine following the
instructions in the readme file in the /disks directory on the DVD
-
Copied the ENTIRE SuSE DVD onto the hard drive of the machine on which I
was to serve the installation files from, INCLUDING the following hidden file
from the DVD to the top level of the directory in which I copied the SuSE DVD
Important
.S.u.S.E-disk-001.2002040315
-
Exported - allowed to be viewed over the NFS file server - the directory into
which I copied the SuSE DVD by adding it to /etc/exports
-
SET the fstab mount instructions for the exported directory to be faster (as
in DSL v. overweighted trans-continental Courier Pigeon faster) by adding
this to my /etc/fstab (with heaps of caveats as described in below HOWTO)
server:/home/nick/suse /home/nick/suse nfs
rsize=32768,wsize=32768,timeo=14,intr
-
Restarted the NFS Server (from inside Yast 2, though only after hand
configuring most of it per the instructions in the document on the DVD
/suse/docu/NFS-HOWTO) with the information about the client I was allowing to
come in and shop around.
-
Booted the other machine with the floppy bootdisk and then added the modulesX
disks as requested
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Selected Start Installation
-
Selected Network Installation
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Allowed it to get an IP by DHCP
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Entered the IP of the machine on which the NFS server was waiting
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Entered the directory specified in the fstab file
-
Set up as usual in Yast.
Installation went perfectly.
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| 4. | Why does YaST2 skip CD's in NFS install of SuSE7.3? |
| Did you simply copy all CDs into one directory? This is a bug in the 7.3 YaST2 - it only "sees" the first
.S.u.S.E* file (each CD-ROM includes this file as an identification
file). As a workaround, you can copy each CD into a separate
directory:
\7.3-i386
|-CD1
|-CD2
|-CD3
|-CD4
|-CD5
|-CD6
|-CD7
Now YaST2 should change the CDs automatically. Alternatively you could keep all files in a single directory and
modify the package description files using the following
script:
#! /bin/sh
function fix_pkd
{
test -e $1.bak || mv $1 $1.bak;
echo fixing $1;
$1.bak < sed "s@^\(InstPath:.*\)[[:digit:]]\{2\}\(.*\)@\\101\\2@"\
> $1;
}
test -e ./.S.u.S.E-disk-002.2001092601 \
|| { echo "Please change to the installation root directory"; exit 1; }
for i in `find ./suse/setup/descr -name "*.pkd" -a -type f`; do
fix_pkd $i;
done
This will fool YaST2 into looking for all packages on the first CD :) |
| 5. | The system hangs when the virtual console switches off after 10
minutes idle time. No log messages, no CapsLock,
NumLock leds, no Ctrl-Alt-Del, no Alt-Fn, no ping answer thru
network, etc... Only a blank screen, Reset and no ideas...
|
| Turn off APM and "hardware monitoring" in the bios. |
| Please try to boot using the "disableapic" kernel parameter |
| 6. | Why am I having problems installing from the files I have downloaded
from ftp.suse.com ?
|
|
Never, ever, transfer files in ascii
mode, even when you know that they are ascii. |
| 7. | How can I mirror the SuSE distro from ftp.suse.com
|
|
#! /bin/sh
wget --mirror ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.3/ \
-X /pub/suse/i386/7.3/full-names \
-X /pub/suse/i386/7.3/unsorted \
-X /pub/suse/i386/7.3/suse/beo1 \
-X /pub/suse/i386/7.3/suse/ham1 \
-X /pub/suse/i386/7.3/suse/han1 \
-X /pub/suse/i386/7.3/suse/j1 \
-X /pub/suse/i386/7.3/suse/j2 \
-X /pub/suse/i386/7.3/suse/zq1 \
-P /data \
-o log.txt
or
#! /bin/sh
rsync -arvz --exclude "full-names/" \
--exclude "beo1/" \
--exclude "ham1/" \
--exclude "han1/" \
--exclude "j1/" \
--exclude "j2/" \
--exclude "zq1/" rpmfind.net::linux/SuSE-Linux/i386/7.3 /data/
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