Just one Thinkpad. I thought it might go smoother if I had downloaded the
install media overnight 1st, given how slow the SUSE mirrors have been lately.
It also seems silly to burn 5 CDs and shuffle them during the install when I
have another machine to install from (but since I wasn't sure I could network
install SUSE I downloaded the CD isos not the DVD).
After trying the SUSE boot disk I found the HTTP option, so I used that on the
same directory of files I deleted. It's chugging away right now; seems happy.
The advantage of HTTP over NFS is that I can look at the access log to see
what the installer is trying to read and if there are any '404's.
I did the same thing for a Fedora core 4 install recently. FC4 didn't impress
me on the Thinkpad G41. It missed a lot of the hardware. I've heard that
SUSE is especially good at detecting laptop hardware, I guess I will find out
soon.
Thanks everyone for your advice.
-- Mark
jhaydon wrote:
> How many machines are you installing to? If is one or two do an ftp
> install over the net from one of SUSE mirrors. I did it from Erlanger,
> Germany.
>
> James Haydon
> Systems Analyst
> The J.M. Stewart Corporation
> stewartsigns.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Mark Polhamus
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:40 AM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: [SLUG] Another SUSE Question: setting up an install server
>
> Since there seems to be some SUSE expertise on this list -- and this is
> my
> first experience with it:
>
> Does anyone know how to set up a SUSE install server? I'd like to do a
> local
> network install over my LAN. I've downloaded the 5 CDs, and extracted
> their
> contents into one directory, hitting "no" when asked to overwrite files.
>
> The network install HOWTO
> <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Network-Install-HOWTO.html#ss4.2> (from
> 2002!) says
> to modify a common.pkd file but that file no longer seems to exist.
> Couldn't
> find any .pkd file.
>
> So aside from just dumping out the 5 CD's contents under a common root
> and
> exporting with NFS, is there anything else I need to do?
>
>
> -- Mark
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