Re: Do they make it hard on purpose?
From: John Culleton (john_at_wexfordpress.com)
Date: 07/14/03
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Date: 13 Jul 2003 15:25:06 -0700
Andreas Stieger <Andreas.Stieger@gmx.de> wrote in message news:<8m16u-a05.ln1@ID-58824.user.dfncis.de>...
> John Culleton wrote:
>
> > If I say ftp install it wants a hardware ip address.
>
> Wrong. The IP address in not hardware.
>
> > Now in the world am I supposed to know what the hardware address of
> > some remote server is?
>
> ping the server.
>
> > But the instructions require me to key in a string at the boot prompt
> > which prompt I never get. When I end up in manual install it wants an ip
> > address which I don't have. So how does one install the thing?
>
> ping the server and use that IP address. Try harder.
The short answer is that with your help and some jiggering I am on
line with
SuSE which was the objective! The README.FTP could have mentioned the
need to ping the eventual target server to get the address before
attempting to install. I knew about ping but it didn't occur to me to
use it to find the numeric (not hardware, sorry) address of an url.
I only ran into one severe gotcha. At first I got nothing but a blank
(black) screen. Having
had this kind of grief before I saved XF86Config and tried
XF86Config.saxsav instead.
That worked but I was frozen in one screen mode, 1280 x1024, at which
size the text was too tiny to read. So I copied my old XF86Config from
Slack 9 and rebooted. Now I can hotkey through modes. Unfortunately
this screws up some other things which I will fix in time by
creating a proper XF86Config using SuSE tools.
No, I did not use a friend's boot.iso. That is how it came from one of
the mirror sites.
My very sincere thanks to all those who replied. After I get
everything working to
my satisfaction I may take a shot at rewriting README.FTP to reflect
what really
happens.
John Culleton
Ten years with Linux, Ten hours with SuSE
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