[KLUG Members] FTP install of SuSE 9.3

[Mike Williams]

>
> From:
> Tony Gettig <tony at gettig.net>
>
>
>Hey there,
>
>I saw someone post that they had done an FTP install of SuSE 9.3.
>(Adam?) I downloaded the iso and have tried pointing it
>to /pub/suse/i386/9.3, but am not having any luck. I've googled on this,
>but not found a conclusive answer. One person said the entire 9.3 tree
>needed to be downloaded to a local FTP server, then it could be
>installed. Before I download all of that, can someone tell me how they
>did their FTP install? Thanks!
>  
>
I did an FTP install of an earlier version, 9.2, I think.  I was playing 
around with the installation, so I knew I was going to be rebuilding it 
fairly often.  I used mget to mirror the whole tree.  You should be able 
to point the installer at an Internet mirror and install from FTP that 
way, but I've had a lot more trouble getting that to work  Of course, it 
won't work at all until SuSE gets around to putting the 9.3 source tree 
on the mirrors in the first place!

My current method of installing is to share the DVD over nfs, and boot 
the installation from the boot installation CD.  Very useful the machine 
you're installing to doesn't have a DVD drive.