[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: doc /build sles10_install.frag

raeburn lon-capa-cvs@mail.lon-capa.org
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:51:52 -0000


raeburn		Tue Oct 10 16:51:52 2006 EDT

  Modified files:              
    /doc/build	sles10_install.frag 
  Log:
  Update directions on building local repository from SLES10 iso files.
  
  
Index: doc/build/sles10_install.frag
diff -u doc/build/sles10_install.frag:1.1 doc/build/sles10_install.frag:1.2
--- doc/build/sles10_install.frag:1.1	Mon Oct  9 13:18:14 2006
+++ doc/build/sles10_install.frag	Tue Oct 10 16:51:52 2006
@@ -108,10 +108,17 @@
 yast
 </pre>
 <p>
-Select "Change Source of Installation". The media you used to install SLES10 will be listed as an installation source.  You may also wish to create a local repository by copying the contents of the RPM directories on the five CDs to a local directory to avoid the need to flip CDs during LON-CAPA installation.  Information about building a local repository is available at:<a href="http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/02/yast_instsrc.html">http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/02/yast_instsrc.html</a>.
-</p>
+Select "Change Source of Installation". The media you used to install SLES10 will be listed as an installation source. If you do not already have a SLES10 installation source at your location, you may want to consider creating one from the 4 iso files for CDs 1 - 4,  to avoid the need to flip CDs during LON-CAPA installation.  Proceed as follows (e.g., for 32 bit):</p>
+<pre>
+mkdir -p sles10/CD1
+mount -o ro,loop SLES-10-x86-CD1.iso /mnt
+cp -rv /mnt/* sles10/CD1
+umount /mnt
+</pre>
+<p>
+Repeat those steps with CD2, CD3 and CD4.</p>
 <h3>Add an additional installation source</h3>
-<p>Add the LON-CAPA SLES 10 repository as an additional installation source, so software installation in yast will have access to two repositories - a SuSE/Novell source (for packages included for the standard distribution) and the LON-CAPA repository (for extra packages needed to run LON-CAPA). For the LON-CAPA source you will use:
+<p>Add the LON-CAPA SLES 10 repository as an additional installation source, so software installation in yast will have access to at least two repositories - a SuSE/Novell source (for packages included for the standard distribution) and the LON-CAPA repository (for extra packages needed to run LON-CAPA). For the LON-CAPA source you will use:
 <dl style="list-style:square outside none">
 <dd>Protocol</dd>
 <dt>HTTP</dt>