Trial to create installation source
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. Which angel gives me right inspiration? André den Oudsten
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:06:51 +0200 "A. den Oudsten" <AdenOudsten@wxs.nl> wrote:
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. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:06:51 +0200 "A. den Oudsten" <AdenOudsten@wxs.nl> wrote:
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
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