Today, my "Change Source of Installation" dialog says: On SUSE LINUX Version 9.3 dvd:/// On dvd://// dvd:///;devices=/dev/hdc On supplementary KDE 3.4 update ftp://gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.3/yast-source On dvd://// cd:/// When I attempt to install apcupsd, I get the dialog demanding that I insert DVD1. ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media)[/media.1/media] In answer to my previous message in this thread, Scott Leighton had said:
Well, I would get rid of those bogus entries. The only valid one is the very last one, except mine lists the device as dvd:///;devices=/dev/hdc
I'm trying to see how my second entry is different... I really am... but I just don't see it. It also makes no difference whether I move that entry to the top of the list, switch off the other entries, etc. Same result. Recall from my earlier post that that same DVD is eminently visible to the rest of the system, since it raises an icon on the KDE desktop, and since I can browse it in Konqueror. Does my fstab reveal anything useful? /dev/hda3 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hdb3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb2 /var ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hda2 /windows/C vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 By the way, the entry /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 Is no longer valid. The CD recorder is physically gone from the system. I was gonna save it until I confirmed that I could write both DVDs and CDs with the dvdrecorder. The /dev/dvdrecorder entry should be ok, since I installed SuSE 9.3 a month ago, using that drive... and Konq sees it and the system can boot from it... yadda-yadda-yadda. Of course, I have not yet tried to burn a CD or DVD with it. Have I messed up the fstab? Could that be what is making YaST sneer at the DVD drive? I read man fstab/info fstab and apparently did not grasp the meaning and implications of the universe... Google found me an "fstab HowTo" that was a little more friendly, but I still don't understand what I'm doing wrong, if anything. Or should I be looking in an entirely different direction? Kevin