[TriLUG] SuSE 9.0 Pro YaST installation source media problem

Jesse Aaron Safir jesse_safir at unc.edu
Fri Jan 16 16:06:02 EST 2004


Jason,

> if it will make you feel any better, that exact scenario has happened to
> me on more than one occation and with more than one version.  suse makes
> a very nice desktop but the yast installer is the flakiest i've ever
> used.  if you want to come to the installfest i will hopefully have a
> suse9 dvd that we can use to install, no disc swapping required.

I don't have a DVD-ROM on this computer.  I will say, however, that I have
a DVD-ROM on my ThinkPad 600e and SuSE 9 installed FINE with the DVD
version of the media.  Perhaps I should go over to Intrex or something and
pick up an el-cheapo DVD-ROM drive...

YaST is REALLY cool but there are a bunch of things that just don't seem
to work or at least don't work as I would expect them to.  For example, I
want to add a printer.  It's an LPD printer and I have the IP address and
queue name.  YaST lets me put those pieces of information in.  However, I
don't see where I could specify the printer model and/or select a driver.
What's up with that?

>
> jason
>
> On Friday 16 January 2004 15:16, Jesse Aaron Safir wrote:
> > I attempted to install SuSE 9.0 Pro on an Athlon 750 home-built
> > machine with 256MB RAM and a 10GB HDD.  I did a custom install and
> > added a bunch of the packages that you don't get by default.  The
> > installation got through CD1 and CD2 but when it got to CD3 it
> > refused to recognize the CD. I tried two other copies of CD3 and got
> > the same result.  It also wouldn't recognize CD4.
> >
> > I then reattempted the install from CD and blew away the previous
> > install and just selected the standard install, which only wanted CD1
> > and CD2. Once that finished, I brought up YaST and attempted to add
> > the additional packages and STILL it refused to recognize CD3 or CD4.
> >  I am able to mount CD3 and CD4 fine with Konqueror and so I created
> > a folder called /install as root.  I then created subfolders called
> > cd1, cd2, cd3, cd4, and cd5 and copied all of the installation CDs to
> > those folders.  I went into YaST and tried to configure these
> > additional sources for the installation media and it wouldn't show
> > any packages.  Actually, I think I was able to get it to ONLY show
> > the packages I had already installed and NOT the ones that I WANTED
> > to install.  The only way I could get it to show the ones that were
> > NOT installed is by pointing to the actual CD media and then it kept
> > saying to insert the CDs.  But when I insert the CDs it says "!= SuSE
> > Linux AG".
> >
> > I then tried copying all of the media to the cd1 folder and
> > configured that and it still didn't recognize it.  BTW, I did chmod
> > a+rwx for those folders so it shouldn't have been a permissions
> > issue.
> >
> > I also tried configuring a number of SuSE 9.0 FTP installation sites
> > from ibiblio to gatech to SuSE themselsves and I couldn't get YaST to
> > see any of the installation sources.
> >
> > Oh...I also tried swapping out my CD-ROM drive in case that was the
> > problem.  But the reality is that I can see the CD-ROM and it's
> > contents fine through Konquereor as /media/cdrom.  YaST tries to
> > access it as /dev/hdd, I believe but it doesn't matter if I give it
> > different paths like /media/cdrom or /dev/cdrom or file:/media/cdrom
> > or file:/install/cd1 or whatever.  It refuses to see the install
> > packages.
> >
> > I have searched every Linux Forum I can find and Google and haven't
> > found any answers for WTF is going wrong.  Please help!  Thanks!
> >
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