Re: [suse-sparc] Ultra 5, YaST dies silently during installation

From: Robert Barta (rho@bigpond.net.au)
Date: Sun Jul 08 2001 - 05:20:35 PDT

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From: Robert Barta <rho@bigpond.net.au>
Message-ID: <20010708222035.B28125@namod.qld.bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Ultra 5, YaST dies silently during installation

    On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:47:38AM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
    > On Fri, Jul 06, rho@bigpond.net.au wrote:

    > > After confirming that this beast obviously does not boot from floppies,
    > > I booted it from tftp64.img via tftp. Linuxrc came up and I configured
    > > that the rest of the install should happen via FTP from a server where I had
    > > the downloaded iso images before.
    >
    > You cannot do a FTP installation with the CD version, but you can do a
    > NFS installation. The reason is that YaST2 cannot do an ftp installation
    > and that the root image is far to big for most machines.

    Yup, that worked. After recompiling my kernel (I have ditched NFS because
    of security reasons) I found on the SuSE site

        http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/de/html/lmuelle_suselinux_internet.html

    the option to mount directly from

       nfs://linux01.gwdg.de:/suse/7.1/sparc

    Well, well.

    Thx again!

    \rho 

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