Bugzilla – Bug 104936
Yast installation doesnt have the install from HD option anymore
Last modified: 2005-08-28 16:14:07 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
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.
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.