Bug 104936

Summary: Yast installation doesnt have the install from HD option anymore
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: marcio ferreira <marcio.ferreira>
Component: InstallationAssignee: E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 1   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description marcio ferreira 2005-08-16 14:09:15 UTC 
While installing SUSE 10b1, I  wondered if I could do the same I did sometimes,
when I was testing previous SUSE versions, by installing from an HD source in
the same hd. It worked great, I did some 9.3 installations this way, and I
wonder why it was removed in 10b1 (as grub option and linuxrc option). I think
there is a reasonable number of people that uses this feature, and its helpful
in some situations. Of course, you could always install minimum from CD1 and
then after that add other stuff, but still< I believe its worth while to make it
available
Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-16 14:39:53 UTC 
That installation mode is unsupported now.  If you want to try
your luck enter e.g. "install=hd:/data" on the kernel command
line during installation.
Comment 2 marcio ferreira 2005-08-28 16:11:31 UTC 
Ive tried in beta3 install=hd:/dev/hdax/suse/cd1 and indeed it works. Just
couldnt be able to install from the same partition to the same partition (fails
to mount /mnt destination, Ive tried manually with --bind with no luck either),
which is something that I used to be able.

Thats it.