[TriLUG] SuSE 9.0 Pro YaST installation source media problem

[Ron Joffe]

On Friday 16 January 2004 15:16, Jesse Aaron Safir wrote:
>
> 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!

Yast is a bit picky about the way that you define he directory paths for 
reading packages from disk. 

The way I usually do that is make iso images of the individual disks:
mkdir /SuSE
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/SuSE/ISO/9_cd1.iso
mkdir /SuSE/cd1
mount -o loop /SuSE/ISO/9_cd1.iso /SuSE/cd1
and repeat for the rest of the disks (just replace cd1 with cd2)
Then in yast, software - Change Source of Installation, and add a new local 
directory of /SuSe/cd1.

Make sure you turn off the initial entry for the cd.

That should do it. Let me know if you are still having problems.

A great source for SuSE issues is the SuSE discussion board at 
http://lists.suse.com

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I couldn't resist, but perhaps part of the problem is in your sig :)  A title 
change might help out the installation greatly.

Ron