[NTLUG:Discuss] Suse installation...

[Stephen Davidson]

Hi Matt.

Suse has an install tool called Yast.  It can be configured "On the fly".  <Installation Settings> on the main menu, followed by <Select Installation Medium> on 
the "pop up" menu.  The rest is really obvious.  I happen to have a bootable CD that I use to start the system, and I use that to start Yast.  I am not sure 
which image file to download to get the same effect.  I think it was the one for CD1 (maybe CD2).  We had initial bought a CD kit to install from, and then 
started doing upgrades, and later more system installs, using the SuSe FTP server, and just used the CD's we had to boot from and start the install.  In Suse, 
the main system install is handled by a Yast2 script, which, if aborted, will kick you into Yast.

I think what you will have to do if you are trying to do this from a floppy (just my $0.01) is download a bootable image from floppy, and put a copy of Yast on 
it.  Yast does have the capability to partition/configure/format partitions.  Btw, Suse may have an image that does this somewhere, but I have never looked for it.

-Steve

Matt Caldwell wrote:

> That is what I mean.  I have downloaded the network.img for the other
> flavors so that I could install via FTP, but could not find one similar
> for Suse.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org] On Behalf
> Of Stephen Davidson
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 9:50 AM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Suse installation...
> 
> 
> Matthew Caldwell wrote:
> 
> 
>> Good Morning,
>> 
>> I was going to try installing Suse last night, but I could not find a
>> network boot image to write to a floppy.  Does Suse allow an install
> 
> via 
> 
>> the net like RedHat or Mandrake??
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Thank You,
>> 
>> Matt Caldwell
>> 
>>  
> 



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