On Friday 28 June 2002 19:20, Andreas Michael Nein wrote:

shalom,

i am getting with yast/you or by manually making mount -o ro ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/current ...the message:

"Impossible to access teh source media. mount: RPC: Portmapper failure - RPC: cannot recieve"

The inetd is ON and with a browser or an ftp program i can access ftp directorys well. What am i doing wrong?

cu andi

I had these problems: 1. Unable to install packages after installation 2. Unable to change source medium 3. Difference between installed version and version on soure medium Description of my solution: I installed from a partition on /dev/hda. Instead of "hda*" _you_ have to read "cdrom". -------- as root: mv /var/lib/YasT2/installmap.ycp /root/installmap.ycp.orig SuSE: path to installation directory, on ftp.suse.com it is in /pub/linux/suse/i386/8.0 cp $SuSE/.S.u.S.E-* /var/adm/current_package_descr cp -a $SuSE/suse/setup /var/adm/current_package_descr/suse Now start YaST, change the source medium, and leave YaST. /var/lib/YaST2/installmap.ycp contains the right info for the source medium, but lacks the other info that you saved in /root/installmap.ycp. Maybe this is enough and YaST works well (haven't tried). I think it's best to add the extra info (tricky!): cd /root cp installmap.ycp.orig installmap.ycp cp /var/lib/YaST2/installmap.ycp installmap.ycp.new - Edit /root/installmap.ycp: * Remove every reference to /dev/hda* (in sed language: s|/dev/hda[0-9]\+||) * Change (or add) the variables from /root/installmap.ycp.new _Important_: Change only those variables _concerning_the_source_medium_! - Save the file cp /root/installmap.ycp /var/lib/YaST2 Start YaST again, and go to the Software installation module. It should work now. -------- It is tricky, but is doable. Good luck, Leen