On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 22:16 +0200, Alexander S. Usov wrote: > why not do the install over ftp/http using the same image? > Worked fine for me. > Utterly no idea how to set ftp up!! Only time I tried a couple of months ago using yast tools I totally failed to be able to do it - the installer simply didn't find the source on the server. In the end I managed to get a downloaded directory of 9.3 off the ftp server at a mirror onto my hard disk (shorn of the 64 bit stuff which I can't use) and that exported fine via nfs. 10.0 doesn't seem to exist in that form last time I looked at a mirror!
I assume one has to set up the file server as an ftp server as well, with the export/suse/suse10.0 directory as the directory served up. I tried that (with 9.3) and the installer failed to find it. If it don't work in yast then I'm sunk without trace knowledge wise. And snatching 10 minutes here, 5 there, between small kids when I'm well enough to think (which with a long term illness a bit like FM/MS can be pretty seldom) means that the learning process is slow... I find most how-tos very difficult. I suspect they are written as aides memoires for tekkies to each other - i.e. you have to know how to do soemthing before you can understand the howto or help page, which just jogs the memory if can't quite recall the exact syntax etc. Not much use for the utterly ignorant and time-restrained! With ftp what sort of things need I be looking out for that could be making me trip up when doing it with yast? Or something I have to delve into an initiation or config file to twiddle about that yast won't do or won't do properly? And seeing as I don't have a clue where most of these things reside or what they are called anymore that can be problematic. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
