Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4020 mails)

["Dana J. Laude" <kc9aae@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 30 September 2004 13:42, Felix Miata wrote:
> Richard Bos wrote:
> > Op donderdag 30 september 2004 12:46, schreef Jerome Lyles:
> > > When I try to add this installation source I get this error
> > > message after 20-25 minutes:
> > >
> > > Unable to create installation source
> > > from URL
> > > 'ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.suse.com/i386/supplementary
> > >/KDE/update_fo r_9.1/yast-source'. Details:
> > > ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media)
> > > Try again?
> > >
> > > What does this mean?  And what do I do to make this work?
> >
> > don't start the directory string with a slash, that may be the
> > root cause.
>
> I asked the same question 16 hours earlier (Wed, 29 Sep 2004
> 16:20:15 -0400) in unanswered thread "YaST Won't Add Source".
> Leaving off the leading "/" changed nothing.

This worked for me.
IP address is 140.221.9.138
Directory is: pub/suse/i386/current/ <-type this as shown or it will 
not work.

Dana