Hi Anas, Thanks for your reply. On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 08:53:07AM -0400, Anas Nashif wrote:
If you are not installing from scratch, you have to add CORE and SLES seperatly. You cant just point to one URL (The top of the source) if you want to install packages in a running system.
But the problem was that I could still not install SLES packages:
4) Both SLES and CORE - two different package repositories If I select both the package repository that I named "sles9" and the one I named "core9", I am still able to install the CORE packages, but still not the SLES packages. The result is the same, no matter which is first in the Software Source Media list.
mmj gave me a hint that solved that problem though. I added sles9/SUSE-SLES-Version-9/CD1/ as my SLES package source, instead of sles9/ (which contains symlinks to boot, content, control.xml and media.1 plus a yast directory). Should I not be able to use sles9/ as my source, just as I use core9/ ?
I get an "Error while writing settings" [snip] Ok, this is a known bug. you have to
mkdir /var/lib/YaST2/cd-creator/
Ouch, that's a nasty one... but it solved my problem! Thanks!
Another few thinks I had to do to get an ISO:
- Install mkisofs (yast2-cd-creator does not depend on it, and it does
not give an error message to the user when it cant execute it!)
- Change the order so SLES is above CORE in the Installation Sources
list (otherwise cd-creator can't find the boot files, and it does not
give an error message when it fails to copy them!)
Success!
2004-09-23 17:36:17 <3> flimmer-new(20411) [bash]
ShellCommand.cc(shellcommand):73 132289 extents written (258 MB)
I will try to move my SLES 8 AutoYast configuration to SLES 9 and make a
test install tomorrow. But now I have an ISO file, so I can get on with
the project. Once again, thanks.
Best regards,
Morten
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Morten K. Poulsen