Hi everyone: It appears I am not the only one experiencing DVD problems as I've seen similar posts on this very issue. To recap: I'm running SuSE 9.3 / 64-bit mode on an AMD 64 laptop. The laptop has a combination CD reader / writer and a DVD reader only. If I'm doing a fresh install, the machine will correctly boot from the DVD and I can do the install. The machine can also boot from a CD and successfully mount both music and data CDs and also burn CDs (this machine will not burn a DVD nor am I trying to do this). The problem is when I'm trying to install additional programs from the DVD with YAST. I identify the program(s), insert the SuSE 9.3 DVD 1 and then the machine repeatedly keeps asking me to insert DVD 1 on /dev/hdc (which is already in the drive!!!!!). When I click 'show details', I get the following message: ERROR (InstSrc: E_no_instsrc_on_media) [ /media.1/media ] However, when I insert the following line in the fstab file: /dev/dvd /media/cdrecorder subfs ro, noauto,user,exec,,iocharset=utf8 0 0 the DVD opens automatically and Konqueror displays all of the folders on the DVD. [but YaST still doesn't see the DVD even with this line] Cheers, Mike
On Sunday 28 August 2005 18:46, Mike Roy wrote:
Hi everyone: It appears I am not the only one experiencing DVD problems as I've seen similar posts on this very issue. To recap: I'm running SuSE 9.3 / 64-bit mode on an AMD 64 laptop. The laptop has a combination CD reader / writer and a DVD reader only. If I'm doing a fresh install, the machine will correctly boot from the DVD and I can do the install. The machine can also boot from a CD and successfully mount both music and data CDs and also burn CDs (this machine will not burn a DVD nor am I trying to do this). The problem is when I'm trying to install additional programs from the DVD with YAST. I identify the program(s), insert the SuSE 9.3 DVD 1 and then the machine repeatedly keeps asking me to insert DVD 1 on /dev/hdc (which is already in the drive!!!!!). When I click 'show details', I get the following message:
ERROR (InstSrc: E_no_instsrc_on_media) [ /media.1/media ]
However, when I insert the following line in the fstab file:
/dev/dvd /media/cdrecorder subfs ro, noauto,user,exec,,iocharset=utf8 0 0
the DVD opens automatically and Konqueror displays all of the folders on the DVD. [but YaST still doesn't see the DVD even with this line] Cheers,
With exactly that problem, the only thing that seems to have worked for me so far (and it's really, really ugly) is: 1) exit whatever install/update I was trying to perform, as this seems to prevent YaST from accepting changes elsewhere.... 2) go to the Change Installation Source dialog and delete everything yes, everything 3) get out of YaST, shutdown and restart your machine 4) re-enter YaST and add a new source to the empty dialog, but only while SuSE 9.3 DVD 1 is present in the drive 5) try your task again Sometime over the next day or three, YaST will forget again, and will refuse to accept any fiddling that you do in "Change Installation source"... even though it will might pretend that it is accepting your instructions. Alternatively, it will just give you that "noinstsrc" message. Simply logging out of your session and logging back in won't work. Making changes and rebooting won't work. If you have the same symptoms that I do, you have to delete all installation sources, then reboot, then login and create/add a new source (the SuSE DVD) and only then will it be accepted and useful for a while. I'm not sure if this annoyance affects remote sources (URLs), because I keep having to destroy them anyway, in order to get the local DVD to work again as a source. After my fourth time going through this dance in a week, I don't even bother to recreate the remote sources until I really need one. I have no faintest clue what makes YaST decide to disdain a perfectly good source. The workaround that I've been using is effective (for me... so far) but labor-intensive and really ugly (with the rebooting). Yes, I've run YOU recently, and normally run it weekly. Kevin
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