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[super-suser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jon Pennington)]

  This isn't exactly a fix, but I've found a coupel of quick work-arounds:

Mount the CD
Start YaST
Go to Choose/Install packages
Select Install Packages
Select /cdrom/suse as the install-from directory.

  or:

Start YaST with CD001 in the drive
Go to Choose/Install packages
Select Load Configuration
Reselect whichever one you chose on setup
Go to Create/Change Configuration
Adjust the packages from the master list to your taste.

  I personally find YaST less and less appealing for post-setup package installation, since it doesn't have support for symlinks yet.  I usually just mount the disc, and rpm -ivh from /cdrom/full-names/i386/.  This has the added bonus of checking deps, which YaST doesn't seem to do for me.  If you want a `prettier' interface, try KPackage from the kpa series (if you have KDE running), or GNORPM (which I don't believe is included) under GNOME.


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On Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:21:15   Chris Parman wrote:
>Hello Everyone,
>
>    I have another problem, its with Yast. When I placed one of the
>Installation CD's
>into the CDrom drive and run Yast. Then choose install packages, and
>then choose
>for the 'source' Source medium. Yast returns this error 'Source medium
>does not contain any patches'.
>I had this problem in 6.1, too, but I ignored it....now I really want to
>install some more packages from the
>CD's. I don't want resort to the ftp site in order to install additional
>packages, when I don't have to.
>What the heck is wrong with Yast these days :) Thank you for your help
>in advance.
>
>Regards,
>
>Chris Parman
>
>
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