Re: [alice] Building a 7.3 NFS install tree

From: Jürgen Henge-Ernst (hernst_at_suse.de)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 09:18:28 CET 

From: Jürgen Henge-Ernst <hernst@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:18:28 +0100
Message-Id: <20011031081908.886D8F900@susefra1.fra.suse.de>
Subject: Re: [alice] Building a 7.3  NFS install tree

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Hello everone,
On Saturday 27 October 2001 00:57, Eric Whiting wrote:
> Eric Whiting wrote:
> > It seems 7.3 YAST2 has changed a little in what it expects for install
> > medium.
> >
> > I rsync'd all 7 of my CDROMs to a NFS tree. I tried a NFS install, it
> > did disk1 just fine, but then insisted on asking me for disk3.
> >suse 6.x and 7.[0-2].
>
> That last sentence was a half-thought, sorry.
>
> What I started to say was suse 6.x and 7.[0-2] all seemed to work fine
> with the rsync of CD[1-7] to a single dir. Something is different in
> suse 7.3.

To generate an installation-server for 7.3 from the CDs copy them like the
versions before an then run the following Script (written by Egbert Eich) in
that directory. That should fix the problem.

Greetings Jürgen

#! /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

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