[oclug] Installing Suse 7.1

[aemau at linux.local]

On Wednesday 21 March 2001 18:34, you wrote:
>
> Two ftp install methods. download the file tree to you drive ...well be
> carefull here as at 7.1 its approx. 3.1G's so no wget!! unless you have a
> large drive as it uncompressess with installed to 17 G's of space. So the

I downloaded the complete distribution onto a hard drive (all except for the 
links which simply won't download) and placed the whole thing under the /suse 
directory.  From the boot images I created a boot floppy and tried to run 
that.  I bypass CDRom installation and proceed to the install from hard drive 
section.  I enter the /dev/hard-drive-partition-no.  It seems to recognize 
the hard drive and then asks for the directory.  I tried /suse and various 
other directories on the distribution that looked reasonable and always get 
the message "Cannot find the image".  Do you have any idea what the H I'm 
doing wrong.  The only other thing I can think of doing is to install 6.4 
then trying to do an update.  I's rather not waste the time if there's a more 
direct way particularly as I'd have to use Yast from 6.4 and am not sure how 
it will handle the change in directory structure.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Allan