[opensuse] Installing from a Windows box
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Installing from a Windows box
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mop48836 wrote: 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? i do not have experience in this but theres a little info on it at the bottom of this page. http://en.opensuse.org/Network_Installation_Source steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHE+/ZCF89bP00wLgRAnmuAJwI/JpjTvacg/tV4HqXXzrgsXaW7wCbBRNe YG3FKyRwN6/0joxEbTNytWk= =X0JN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Installing from a Windows box
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Installing from a Windows box
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mop48836 wrote: Any idea would be helpful... i tried googling as i said, but this issue seems not to be well documented. TIA PatrickM one question... wouldnt it be a bit easier to use the mini cd like you have and just use the oss repository for internet installation instead of the dvd you have? Im afraid i cant be more help, i was done with windows 5 years ago. anyone? steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHFBQDCF89bP00wLgRAlwjAJ4wFoWhKH+eTx/DDPC5+2P7L8dyUACePw4L mrPip6lfPNewrivaexVzJz0= =BJGo -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Installing from a Windows box
mop48836 wrote: 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 Hi again Steve! My replies to your posts always get banned: Quote: Hi, this is the mlmmj program managing the mailinglist opensuse@opensuse.org I'm sorry to inform you that your message could not be delivered to the list. Your mail was rejected because it matched a rule set up by the list administrator. This list does not allow: * HTML mails * Attachments * Mails from other lists If you think your mail does not violoate these rules and was declined anyway, contact the owner at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i already contacted owner, because all replies were banned. OK, sorry for this little OT. Yes, that could be an option i thought. But i'm overquota for downloading large files, as i had already DL the DVD ISO. I'm using a friend's line, anyway. So i'll have to stick to the DVD install as SMB share. I tried combinations like: smb://john/DVD //john/DVD and even Windows UNC paths: \\john\G: that kind of workarounds. Next month i'll have more access for downloading, but hope we can solve it before ;-) THX! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
