mop48836 wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to upgrade a 10.2 openSUSE installation to a 10.3, in a
laptop that does not have any DVD drive.
I may use for the installation a Windows based PC, that is not mine.
This PC has a DVD drive, which is set as Master.
The idea is to boot from the mini CD (MD5 ok) in my laptop, and then
to install through the DHCP-based LAN.
On the source PC ("John"), the DVD (openSUSE 10.3, MD5 fine) is shared
and has a share name of... DVD.
So i boot the mini Cd in the laptop, and go through SMB / CIFS
(Windows Share).
All seem sto go right (entering the correct IP address of the server
(pinged before: ok), taking care of the case sensitive "DVD" share
name, etc.) until i get stuck at one point:
when i'm prompted to "Enter the directory on the server", i try
several combinations but i always get a "No repository found" message.
I'm not using any ftp server in the Windows PC, but it should work
without, provided that the "directory" is entered the correct way, i
think.
But what is the information supposed to give, in this situation?
Can someone please help me?
TIA
Best Regards,
PatrickM
(Hi,
i would have liked to answer directly to steve's post, but not matter
what i tried, the reply was banned, even without HTML, etc. just plain text)
Hi Steve,
THX for the link. I was googling since some time and that one appeared
almost always.
Quoting:
"
* Share the d:\install directory as, for example, INSTALL. NOTE - I
found the installer doesn't like spaces is the path, so don't put the
files in a directory with spaces in.
* If you have problems accessing the windows share, install a
ftp-server on the windows system and install SUSE Linux via FTP
* Make a boot cd of the Internet Installation Boot Image(boot.iso)
and start with it the installation
"
Remark that the whole idea in this method is to place the ISO CDs in a
"holder" (BTW... i miss them... it could be called a burden, but my 5+1
went happily with my laptop... only a couple of times a NFS server was
used as source, and it worked fine, but i don't have this possibility
right now, just the Windows box).
That "holder" of the ISOs (in the case of the DVD, the ISO already
"mounted" by Windows) is a SMB share.
In the example it is called "INSTALL" - with the note about the spaces.
During the mini CD boot, i can place the SMB share name: DVD.
But that's just after where i hang: what info to enter in the field
just after "Enter the directory on the server"
That's precisely here where i'm lost.
I tried windows and *nix UNC names for what should point to the
directory / in the DVD, but i just can't get it right...
Anyway, thanks for your help.
Any idea would be helpful... i tried googling as i said, but this issue
seems not to be well documented.
TIA
PatrickM
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