13 Apr
2004
13 Apr
'04
8:19 a.m.
sorry, I didn't reply to the newsgroup but only to the people who were
kindly wanting to help.
so here is an abstract for everybody to read:
-the problem is not to install the distribution but to install packages
-distribution is suse 8.1 pro
-discovered a menu in yast where one can change installation source to ftp
-but this doesn't work because
* maybe yast is missing some module for ftp to work
* or I have given a wrong URL (directory on ftp server)
- because we don't want to bother the isp to get physical acces to the
server we want to install packages via ftp. rpm -i is ok but if many
dependencies rather tedious work
So if anyone knows what I have to do to yast so that it pulls packages
via ftp and install them, this would be very nice.
(I would rather like to have a debian on the machine, because I'm used
to it, but that's a different story)
Thanks!
Eric Dondelinger wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Brent Frère wrote:
If you are looking for a way to remotely install
Suse distribution, I
confirm that (after long researchs) there is no such ressource on the
web, because it is forbidden by the terms of the licence of some
softwares contained in the CDs. No problem to use YOU (YaST On-line
Update), but no ways to install Suse from the web. Sorry.
That's incorrect. You won't get ISOs (at least of the x86 distribution)
because some software there is non-free. You *can* install via FTP,
without those parts - the free packages are all available on the
SUSE FTP server. There will be less problems for this in the future,
as Novell has decided to GPL yast - of course problems remain for
the proprietary third-party software included with the CDs/DVD.
Of course you'll need to boot from floppy and fetch the packages
from the network, which isn't too practical if you're on analog
or ISDN.
Note that you *can* download ISOs for some other architectures
(like Sparc, Alpha) - probably those proprietary packages are not
even available for those platforms.
You should instead try to find a set of Suse8.1
CDs.
No, find a set of SuSE 9.0 (or soon 9.1) CDs/DVDs ;-)
Greets, Eric