All, I am unable to persuade YaST Installation Source to find my DVD drive with the SuSE 10.0 DVD in it (the one that I used to install SuSE 10.0). Help? The rest of this post is just the incorrect stuff that I've already tried... I've had 10.0 in for a few weeks, from a fresh install, with no changes to the system since then, other than YOU updates. So I decided it was time to see what's available at Packman, get uncrippled xine and libdvdcss, and so on. Somewhere in the process, YaST decides that it needs the installation DVD (from my boxed set), and tells me to insert it. It's already in and automounted, so I tell YaST to look again... and again... So, I look at the Installation Sources. Somebody (not I) has inserted that decorative, non-functional link:
(status name url) on dvd://// dvd:///
(4 slashes) (3 slashes)
The same pointless creation that gave Gabor Istvan trouble back in the spring of this year. I delete the bogus link, and ask YaST to build a new link to the actual DVD. YaST pretends to try, and gives me the message about "no product information available at the given location." I have not edited my fstab since installing 10.0 (from DVD), but I look there anyway, in case a clue decides to obligingly present itself. Regarding DVD, there's only one entry, created by YaST during installation. Untouched by human hands since it was created. /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 If that one is not good enough, I must need another. I try creating one: /dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 Nope. I try a few other faint-hope combinations. Nope. I search old [SLE] threads and find one from last March, in which Randall responds to Gabor:
My entry reads like this:
dvd:///;devices=/dev/hdc
Try that!
But how or where can I modify this entry? In YaST I can add, edit, or delete. None of these accepts text as input. Thanks, IG
Where it came in handy for me was when I initiated an installation (after making my selections in YaST Install and Remove Software) and only then discovered that my renaming of the symlinks in /dev and /media had rendered the I&R module incapable of finding the installation source (the distribution DVD, in my case). When that happens, you get an error dialog telling you the required media could not be found. In that dialog you can indeed edit the "dvd:///" and change it to "dvd:///;devices=/dev/hdc". After that you can click Retry (I think it's Retry) and the installation proceeds successfully.
Thanks, Randall, but when I followed those directions, the dialog showed "dvd:///;devices=/dev/hdc" already in place. So, now what? Since that seems to be the link that's in use, I went back to fstab and tried creating an entry like this, to sorta match: /dev/hdc /dev/dvd subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 No progress. There is still "no product information available at the given location." Hmm. Maybe if I create a symlink /media/dvd -> /media/dvdrecorder ? Nope. Ok, I've run out of things to try. Apparently I don't understand what is connected to what. Can somebody tell me what's going on, and how to fix, please? Kevin
All, How do I fix this? 1. Want to install something, open YaST > Software > Software Management 2. Choose package and click next. Get Package Installation screen. 3. Dialog pops up: "Insert SUSE LINUX Version 10.0 DVD 1 URL dvd:///;devices=/dev/hdc ERROR (InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media) [/media.1/media] This tells me that it expects to find the installation media on "/media.1/media". I edited fstab to include a setting /dev/dvdrecorder /media.1/media subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 This did not help. I don't understand why, since I gave it what it was looking for. Isn't it just looking for "directory.yast" in /media.1/media? So why isn't it happy? Is there something I need to do, to activate changes after editing fstab? I'm stuck in a loop where Software Management tells me that there's no install source on the media, and Installation Source won't let me add the DVD as an installation source "no product information available at the given location". I also tried YaST > Hardware > CD-ROM Drives, but that didn't give me anything new... in fact, I can't understand what it's doing when I select "Add"... nothing seems to get Added. The next time I open that dialog, the entries are back to what they were. Is there some other YaST dialog I need to use? Is there some other file I need to edit? Is there a different edit that I should be doing in fstab? Which document explains how all this is hooked together? I googled for a while and I chased many files in /usr/share/doc/manual, without enlightenment. How about a hint where I should look next? Kevin
I was going around in circles, failing to add my own SUSE DVD as an installation source (and never did discover why DVD ever _stopped_ being an Installation Source). Yesterday, I stumbled on an old post in another forum, in which somebody with a similar problem (on an earlier SuSE version) got some relief by - Booting from DVD - selecting Installation - proceeding through the initial Installation process until - when presented with option to "Repair" existing system... took it. I did get BOOT LOADER ERROR DETECTED, though not any other errors (such as might lead one to suspect a problem with DVD or fstab, etc.), and told it to rebuild. After that, the check again reported BOOT LOADER ERROR DETECTED. I don't know why that would be, since I have always been able to boot just fine, and I don't see any ominous messages in the logs. Nevertheless, when I rebooted into SUSE 10.0, I tried a Packman update which also wanted something from DVD 1, and this time there was no complaint. So something worked. For now, at least, the problem appears to have fixed itself. Kevin
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