On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:05:10PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > Acer Aspire 3503WLMI > SiS chipset, shared memory graphics, 1200x800 "Crhystal Brite" > display, 512 Mbytes RAM, 80 GB disk, DVD-dl burner > Atheros wireless > Software modem > No floppy > No serial > As the baseline, SuSE 10 detects all the above and installs drives and > attempts > to configure everything including dialup. > > I'm doing a manual install from a local http server, booting from the > boot.iso > supplied. > > The first point I wish to make goes to the use of dhcp options. I raised > this > on anaconda-list, but as I wasn't sufficiently persuasive then I will > take it > up again. Anaconda/pump can (and last I looked) did set vendor-options. This > allows a DHCP client to ask for non-standard information from a DHCP server. > DHCP3, a standard part of recent Red Hat/Fedora and many other > distributions, > and generally available for Unix, can be configured to recognise the vendor > options and formulate its reply using that information. > > "vendor" in this instance means Red Hat: organisation creating the vendor > option gets to describe (or not) what specific vendor options are > available and > what they mean. > > In the case of Anaconda, it could be used to specify the source of a > kickstart > file, or to request information to fill in the information required to > complete > various on-screen forms. In this specific instance, where I am > testing/evaluating a new (beta) release, it would be convenient for me to > specify the source URI for the installation media, maybe > http://fedora.example.lan/beta1/i386/ - and, of course, timezone, > keyboard and > language choices. John, you can use the DHCP server in Fedora to serve up the location of a kickstart file. I do it routinely here. It involves adding a line or two to your DHCP config file. See the Red Hat 9 Customization Guide (http://www.redhat.net/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/pdf/rhl-cg-en-9.pdf). > > Now, the installation has died and there's a traceback. This brings me to > another gripe. I have a scrollable window of four lines. This > impossiblly small > (and persuaded me to not read the release notes). Someone needs to go to > usability school! Speaking of usability school, please do something about the hideous line wrapping of this email. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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