Re: Do they make it hard on purpose?
From: Mlman (mleisen1_at_rochester.rr.com)
Date: 07/16/03
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:45:46 GMT
John Culleton wrote:
> I read the READMES. I got and burned the boot ISO. I rebooted.
> Now I get a menu (where is the boot prompt?) I select installation.
> If I say ftp install it wants a hardware ip address. How in the world am
> I supposed to know what the hardware address of some remote server is?
>
> So I thought to install using a cdrom. The only other cdrom image
> I could find is called "root". But that is not the disk 1 that they
> are looking for.
>
> So dear friends, please take pity. I have installed Slack many times.
> I have even installed gentoo. I installed Red Hat once (but didn't like it.)
>
> 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?
>
> John Culleton
Ok the screen you get is normal. I get it when I install via FTP also.
If your usisng an NVIDIA video card select safe install. You will
then get the yast1 install box like the directions state.
130.207.108.134 is the IP for the Athens GA mirror and the directory is
/pub/suse/suse/i386/current(or 8.2)
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