zens wrote:
<MY VALUE="$0.02"> just a quick observation, I dont know anything about the yast admin tool suse being one of the few linux distributions I havent run yet (*cough*still waiting for my copy of 5.3 to arrive*cough*) , but one thing I have noticed about admin tools in general is that they take away from the learning expierence, and make people too dependant on them to
take the time to learn how to do things the "hard way"... regarding this particular situation, I dont know what yast is supposed to do with the cdrom, so I wont even attempt to determine the root of the problem, but can it really be more difficult than typing "mount /dev/cdrom" (assuming you have the corresponding entry in your /etc/fstab, mabye since I dont know what functionality yast plays with the cdrom I am stepping out of bounds, but it really couldnt be *that* much of a timesaver could it? </MY> I can install with the method you have suggested but that isn't the
I agree. point. The point is that something is wrong with the admin tool that suse is known for... I simply would like to know why it is giving me problems, and *learn* how to fix it. I really couldn't agree with you more on these automagic tools taking away from the learning experience...I don't want windoze. I've only had my own computer for about a year and a half and have only switched to linux in July (only linux, no windoze:) I must say that I have learned more in the past month or so than ever before, all thanks to linux. I'm sorry that I can't be the guru you seem to be. regards Harry
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