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Hi,
I am stuck with 8.0 SuSE because *they* decided to cut on the supported MB's for SuSE. My MB ( SuperMicro P3PTDE6) is among the abandoned ones.
So using a 8.2 and later install CD/DVD results in a freeze after kernel loading.
I was able to compile a working 2.4.20 kernel but now I don't know how to install a whole SuSE distribution with it.
I've been searching, and trying, a lot since then. I even tried to adapt "Linux from Scratch", to use apt2rpm (or whatever it's called.. I don't remember), to use remote install INFS and ftp.
Nothing.
The only way seems to replace the kernel inside the CD/DVD and use it. But...
The kernel inside an install CD is non a plain kernel. Its compressed and it seems as if only part of the "linux" file is compressed. The rest seem to be part of the install dialog.
In short.. Anyone knows how to build a working install kit (boot+install kernel) from a suitably compiled kernel?
Both with the 2.4 and the 2.6 kernel.
I hope you are more skilled than the ML/NG's I visited
Thank you,
Ermanno Polli
ermanno.polli@lnf.infn.it
Why don't you try installing
Why don't you try installing SUSE 9.1 or 9.2?
illogical version numering?
From what I learned in elementary school, these fall into the
category. Or have some SuSE employees problems with counting?
You can do so :
-You need a working suse 9.2 installation
-install suse's kernel source rpm and replace their .config with one modified by you (or use another version)
-copy all 9.2 dvd/cd into a lolcal dir,replace their kernel rpm with your
-create a bootable dvd .
-install using your selfmade dvd.
look on google to find how remastering a bootable dvd using growisofs/mkisofs.
good luck ;-)
stefano
Re: You can do so (Was: installing SuSE with an unsupported MB)
You said I could compile a new kernel and that's what I've done with 8.2. No problem doing that with 9.2 or 9.1.
Then I have to substitute my newly created kernel in the distro. I think you mean the "root" file in.. Rats! I don't have the distro... :-( Well. *that* file.
But the install disk boots form a shrinked size kernel, named "linux", in the /boot directory.
This is a bit more complicated matter.
I "looked inside" the "linux" file in /boot and it seems compressed, as I said in my first message.
I suppose *that* is the kernel the installation CD loads.
Then, having told the installation I want a remote install, the "root" file is downloaded and executed.
So I have to prepare two kernels: one for the install disk and the other to be downloaded from a remote system.
Or am I completely wrong??
Ciao, Stefano.. ;-) Di dove sei?
Thanx,
Ermanno Polli