Thanks for the comment, it’s mostly a synthesis of several articles and interpreting configuration files, but aligned to my wavelength.

The real reason *I* went through the process of setting up a PXE environment is because I have a couple of machines without optical drives (not all running Linux ) and occasionally need to do a quick & dirty RESCUE boot Which will be the subject of another page… soon.

You beat me to referencing your remote install how-to Which is a splendidly useful document, appearing in my bookmarks in at least four different browsers

Dan.

But if you just want a way of installing without burning CDs, consider copying the /boot directory from the media to a directory on hard disk (say /bootinstall), and then adding a suitable entry to GRUB to point to the loader/linux (as kernel) and loader/initrd files below this, with a suitable “install=” following the kernel entry.

Then you can boot that grub menu entry and start the install.

Install from hard disk is unsupported, but works fine (e.g. install=hd:/sda3/). But you have to leave /dev/sda3 alone in the partitioning dialog in YaST: don’t try to set up a mount point until afterwards, or the install may fail.

See also:
http://disruptive.org.uk/2006/01/28/suse_remote_install_howto.html