Re: [Sheflug] SuSE 7.0 liveeval

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

> I picked up a SuSE 7.0 LiveEval CD from the Blackwells book store and am
> trying to use it to upgrade my SuSE 6.3... And failing. My computer is too
> old - can't boot from CD.  No info as for how to proceede in this
> situation on the CD package nor on the CD itself. Maximum success I was
> able to achieve - is to boot with a boot disk with the kernel from the CD
> /boot directory and "ro root=/dev/hdc S" options (no other runlevel
> worked), login as root, mount a floppy as a /tmp / /var/log directory
> (depending on whether trying to run yast or yast2) and start yast / yast2.
> This is it. Can't get either of them to do anything with my existing
> installation and the CD - update or whatever. The kernel from the CD's
> /disks directory behaves even worse - hangs on "hardware detection... PnP
> add card." Anybody any ideas?

The disk images on the CD really ought to work - they usually use the same
kernel. How about - you get a DOS boot disk from somewhere (I hear Caldera
do a Free Dos ;), and use loadlin? It ought to be on the Suse disk
somewhere. You can then boot dos using the floppy, and then boot the CD
using loadlin. You should then be in an upgradable Yast session :)

Just a tip - don't boot to Linux off your local install and upgrade from
there. You'll probably end up wrecking the whole thing. :(

Cheers,

Alex.

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