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

Ladislav Slezak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A. den Oudsten napsal(a):
>
> > Hy,
> > I'm using openSUSE 10.2 with great satisfaction, but when I trie with
> > Yast to make a new installation source in a local directory
> > /windows/C/MyDownloadFiles/ it reacts with: Can't make installation
> > source. Unknown source type for dir:///windows/C/MyDownloadFiles/
> >
> > Why this? May be I did something wrong, but what?
>
>
> What does /windows/C/MyDownloadFiles contain? Yast expects a product in the
> specified directory (CD1/DVD1 copy or a YUM repository). If you want to use an
> ISO image check the option in the dialog.
>
> If you have just plain RPM files (no metadata, no directory media.1 or
> suse/setup...) use "Package Directory" type of the source.
>
>
> 	Ladislav
Indeed I should chose Package Directory instead of Local Directory.
The reason why is not clear for me because in both I used the same 
directory.

Thanks,

André den Oudsten
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