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Title: S.u.S.E. Linux installation through hard disk

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S.u.S.E. Linux installation through hard disk

Applicable to
S.u.S.E. version: from 4.2 on

Request:

You must refuse for any reason to the installation from the S.u.S.E. Linux CD. See about this the article CDROM: Installation from CD-ROMs at the parallel port

Procedure

The procedure for this is described in the S.u.S.E. Linux handbook, in the paragraph "Copying packages onto HD".

Regretfully, a printing error has creeped in the S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2 book. The procedure is therefore once more correctly described here.

You should proceed as follows during the installation on hard disk:

  1. Create a directory under DOS on your hard disk. From now on, the directory
    mkdir c:\emil
    
    should be assumed. You can freely choose the name (c:\dos would not be a good choice ;-) )

  2. Save in this directory the following subdirectories (names MUST be like that):

    mkdir c:\emil\images
    mkdir c:\emil\setup
    mkdir c:\emil\setup\descr
    mkdir c:\emil\a1
    
    As you may notice, images, setup and a1 (serie a1's directory) are in the same directory level.

  3. Change to your CD-ROM drive (here E: is supposed to be the drive):
    e:
    

  4. Change into the directory e:\suse. Here you will find a similar directory estructure to the one you have created on the hard disk:
    cd \suse
    
  5. Copy the files from the directories images, setup and a1 (including subdirectories) into the corresponding directories on the hard disk.
    xcopy /s images\*.* c:\emil\images
    xcopy /s setup\*.*  c:\emil\setup
    xcopy /s a1\*.*     c:\emil\a1
    
  6. If you have more space on the hard disk, and want to install another packets along with the basis installation, you can create a directory in c:\emil for each serie from which you want to have additional packets. The directories MUST be called exactly like on the CD!

  7. Start now S.u.S.E. Linux setup under DOS from the CD. Please make the correct bootdisk (no installation on CD possible!):
    e:
    cd \
    setup
    
  8. Reboot the computer with the bootdisk.

  9. In the Linux installation system, declare in YaST as installation source that you want to install on a hard disk partition. Declare as installation source the partition, in which the DOS drive c: is located (example above!). Please declare /emil as path.

    Notice, that you work under Linux. Under Linux, the slash / is the path delimitor, not the backslash \ !

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Keywords: INSTALLATION, HD, HARD DISK, DISK, PARALLEL, CD, CDROM, BOOT

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