Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

["A. den Oudsten" <AdenOudsten@xxxxxx>]

Jerry Feldman wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:06:51 +0200
> "A. den Oudsten" <AdenOudsten@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  
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> > I upgraded from SuSE 10.0 to SUSE Linux 10.1 and lost in doing so 
> > shlibs5 which I need for running my good old WordPerfect8 for Linux. I 
> > got that shlibs5 in 10.0 from my Linux 8.1 DVD.
> > In 10.1 Yast refuses to create an installation source for that DVD.
> > In 10.1 Yast can't configure a CDROM anymore.
> > When I try to mount that DVD I get the message 'Can't find /media/dvd/ 
> > in fstab'.
> > As 'su' I  tried to change fstab with Open Office. It failed.
> >    
> Let me try to help.
> First, OpenOffice is NOT a text editor. Do not use it to edit a plain
> text file. You can use gedit or kedit or vi or emacs, but you do not
> have to do this for 10.1 since the CD/DVD is a udev device.
>
> Try removing media from the drive. Make sure YaST2 is not running.
> Check the mount table:
> from a shell run the 'mount' command with no options.
> It should show something like:
> /dev/hdb1 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
> /dev/hdb8 on /home type reiserfs (rw)
> /dev/hdb6 on /usr/local type reiserfs (rw)
> securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
>
> Now put your 8.1 DVD in, and you should get a dialog box asking what to
> do. You can "do nothing". Rerun the mount command and you should see
> somethinbg like I did with the 9.0 DVD:
> /dev/hdd on /media/SU900_001 type iso9660
> (ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,utf8)
>
> If you do see this, you can then run YaST2/Installation source. 
> There are a couple of additional tricks you can do if this does not
> work.
>  
After I put the 8.1 DVD in the drive it didn't gave me the dialog box.
Starting a session as 'su' Yast2/Installation source allowed me to make 
a new catalogue for the 8.1 DVD.
Installation of shlibs5 was quite easy after that.
Thanks for the trigger!!!

André den Oudsten