[KLUG Members] FTP install of SuSE 9.3

[Jeremy Leonard]

Mike Williams wrote:

>>
>> 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.
>
Teh FTP version for SUSE 9.3 isn't ready yet. If you read the readme in 
the 9.3 directory it states they are working on it. The FTP is corrently 
for people using the 9.2 CDs. They couldn't fit everything from the DVD 
on the CDs so they have a download for the rest of the packages.

The readme will change when the FTP version is ready.

Jeremy