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From: NetworkElf on 7 Apr 2008 13:46 Greetings all, I have a number of Suse boxen to setup, so I decided to grab the repository and set it up locally, rather than burning bandwidth and hitting someone's mirror over and over. I set up a local web site opensuse.mynet.net and pointed it to the root of the install directory (where boot, suse,etc. directories are). I can browse to this site and see everything as I can see it on one of the mirrors. I got everything downloaded and I've booted to my network install disk, but after giving it the name of my local http site (opensuse.mynet.net) and the directory (blank), I'm getting a 404 error. Going to the alt-F3 console shows me that the install cannot see /boot/i386/root, even though I can browse the directory tree in firefox and see everything from my local workstation. I can browse to files and open them, so it doesn't appear to be an access error and the file in question is in the directory. I'm sort of stumped here. I tried reconfiguring the web site to point to the parent directory (10.2) and giving the site as opensuse.mynet.net and the directory as /10.2, but this results in the same problem, but with a reference to /10.2/boot/i383/root instead. If anyone has any thoughts on this, I would be very happy to hear them. BTW, I pointed this same install disk and physical box to one of the mirror repositories and it worked fine, just horribly slowly. Thanks! ne. -- Maybe so, but so what if they did violate it? Are you going to spend $100,000 on lawyers to try to make them admit it? Do you expect Super Privacy Man to swoop out of the sky and carry them off to virtual jail if you shine the Bat Sign in the sky? -- Vernon Schryver, March 26, 2008
From: David Bolt on 8 Apr 2008 13:06
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, NetworkElf wrote:- <snip> >If anyone has any thoughts on this, I would be very happy to hear them. >BTW, I pointed this same install disk and physical box to one of the >mirror repositories and it worked fine, just horribly slowly. As a background, I'm using 10.3 as my example, although I've also set up 11.0 alpha3 in the same manor. For 10.3, I copied the DVD into its own directory. In my case, it is located at /local/openSUSE-10.3-GM . The 11.0 alpha3 is located in /local/openSUSE-11.0 . I also have a DHCP server running on my LAN so I don't have to worry about configuring IP addresses for systems as they are added. First step was to create the file /etc/apache2/conf.d/inst-source.conf and add the following contents to it: Alias /suse/ "/local/openSUSE-10.3-GM/" <Directory "/local/openSUSE-10.3-GM"> Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> Alias /factory/ "/local/openSUSE-11.0/" <Directory "/local/openSUSE-11.0"> Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> I had apache2 reload the configuration by using: rcapache2 reload My second step was to start the installation on a system using the network installation CD. I didn't need to do this as I could have used the DVD or one of the CD installation sources. Once the CD/DVD menu is displayed, I selected "Installation" and entered the following options: install=http://192.168.0.40/suse language=en_GB usedhcp=1 startshell=1 These options[0] specify I'm using a British keyboard layout, and I'd like the display to be English, the installation source is my web server located at 192.168.0.40 with the sources root directory being /suse, and that I want the network card to be configured using DHCP. I added the "startshell=1" option because I sometimes like to use a shell before the installation gets underway, mainly to make sure that swap is used right from the beginning on low-memory systems. Pressing return loaded the kernel from the CD and proceeded to start the installation. Just over an hour later, I had another system up and running 10.3. It didn't stay there though as I restarted the installation. Changing the /suse to /factory gave me an 11.0a3 installation instead. [0] You can find the details about these, and many others, here: <URL:http://en.opensuse.org/Linuxrc> Regards, David Bolt -- www.davjam.org/lifetype/ www.distributed.net: OGR(a)100Mnodes, RC5-72(a)15Mkeys SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit | openSUSE 10.3 32bit | openSUSE 11.0a1 SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | openSUSE 10.3 64bit RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC |RISC OS 3.11 |