Bug 150717

Summary: ISO installation support
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Vinay Khaitan <vkhaitan>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 3   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.1   
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Description Vinay Khaitan 2006-02-14 10:07:44 UTC 
There is a feature in suse installation about harddisk installation support.
I want a feature of support of installation from ISO files on harddisk.

SO that I can give the path of iso on harddisk and Yast start installation from there.
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-02-14 12:11:24 UTC 
Can be done as easily: Mount the ISO from a local disk using a loop device (mount -o loop cd.iso /mnt) and proceed as if you would install from a directore (e.g. /mnt).

Maby yast should offer some point-and-click interface to that in the installation source dialog. Jiri? What do you think about that? I think something like that was already filed some time ago...
Comment 2 Vinay Khaitan 2006-02-14 12:29:44 UTC 
Yes, there should be a point and click interface.
And yes, I am smart enough to start installation from iso(which I did) ;-)

But it still requires a tree. Yast installation medium doesn't give option to specify directory. It only give us a menu of /dev/hda* . Now how can we specify directory ?
What I did then is simply "mount -bind /iso_mount_point /var/adm/Yast/Instllation_cahce_whatever "


I remember that redhat infact requires iso images to install from harddisk.
Comment 3 Klaus Kämpf 2006-02-14 12:49:42 UTC 
This will be supported in future versions.