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On Thursday 09 January 2003 01:55 pm, you wrote:
OOPS, step 3.5 make sure you change directory to /SuSE-dvd BEFORE doing step 4 Sorry Yet another apology Step 7 should be "local directory" then add the path to "/SuSE-dvd" NOT "/dev/dvd"
On Thursday 09 January 2003 01:50 pm, Harry Wert wrote:
Yes it works, do the following: 1) As root, cd / 2) md SuSE-dvd (or whatever you want to call it) 3) Mount the SuSE dvd from your distribution in your cd cd/dvd drive 4) cp * /dvd/ (this will take about 15 min with a 1.8Ghz processor) 5) Open yast 2 and click on "change source of installation" 6) select the visible line and then select "delete" 7) select "add" and scroll down to find "/dev/dvd" 8) click "ok" then "finish" and exit yast2 9) unmount and remove the SuSE dvd in your cd/dvd device
Use yast2 as usual as it will now "look" for the /SuSE-dvd directory on your hard disk instead of requesting you insert the dvd.
Works fine on my SuSE8.1 system and saves the hassel of screwing around with the physical SuSE cd
Regards, Harry
On Thursday 09 January 2003 10:46 am, ximm wrote:
You have to copy the file .S.u.S.Eblah-blah also. Normal copy operation doesn't do it because the filename starts with a dot.
Sorry, I haven't found in the DVD any file called .S.u.S.E.xxxxxxx, as it exists in the DVD of the 8.0 version.
Someone has copied the SuSE 8.1 DVD into a partition and made it work as a installation source for Yast2??
Thanks!