Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES9 + SP2 on DVD

From: Bernd Nies (listuser_at_adnovum.ch)
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 09:41:22 CET


Message-ID: <43687BB2.3060603@adnovum.ch>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:41:22 +0100
From: Bernd Nies <listuser@adnovum.ch>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES9 + SP2 on DVD

Hi Kirk,

I tried to burn a DVD as you described. I also had to remove the service
pack CD 3 which contains only sources. Otherwise the ISO-File got too
big (ca. 5GB). I created the ISO-File with

    mkisofs -V SLES9_SP2 -publisher "SUSE Linux AG" \
      -r -J -l -L -iso-level 4 \
      -b boot/loader/isolinux.bin \
      -c boot/loader/boot.cat -no-emul-boot \
      -boot-load-size 4 \
      -boot-info-table \
      -graft-points \
      -o ../sles9sp2-dvd.iso \
      .

and burned it on DVD with

   cdrecord-dvd dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 speed=4 -eject -sao ../sles9sp2-dvd.iso

The DVD was bootable but when I select "Installation" from the GRUB menu
it asks after loading and booting the kernel:

   Make sure that CD number 1 is in your drive
   [OK] [Back]

and when clicking [OK] it complains

   Could not find the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 Installation CD.
   Activating manual setup program.

When I give "install=dvd:///" as boot option it is the same. What did I
miss?

BTW: There is a bug in the GRUB options. Seems that they are limited to
only 256 characters total length. When we set up SUSE Linux with an
install server but don't want to use DHCP we need to give these options

   hostip=192.168.5.168/24 gateway=192.168.5.253
   autoyast=nfs://192.168.5.203/export/suse/autoyast/
   install=nfs://192.168.5.203/export/suse/x86_64/sles9sp2/

Regards,
Bernd

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