David Chapman wrote:

On Friday 13 May 2005 12:09, Allison Maury wrote:

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Hi,

I have SLES 9 installed.

I have followed the directions from the following Cool Solutions page

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/8973.html

for saving images of the install CDs to the hard disk so that I can install packages without the CDs. So, I ripped the CDs to the hard disk, then mounted the 5 image files, and then changed the source of installation within yast. The problem is that when I try to install something, for example logsurfer (medium is CD2), it's still asking me to insert 'SUSE CORE Version 9 CD 2.' I don't know if it's related to the warning that I get for the last 3 cds ("There is no product information available..."). But the Cool Solutions page says it's safe to continue with this warning. I have installed 2 packages though this method, but it hangs on most.

Did I forget something? Any ideas?

THANKS!

Did you disable the original install source. You can also move it to the bottom of the list.

Thanks for your repsonse. I did disable the original install source. Any other ideas?

Jonas Helgi Palsson wrote:

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You say you have SLES 9. Then you do not have to follow this so called "cool solution"

Sles has got a yast module for making a installation server.

Use that one. It's the least hassle :-)

I've made my own (SLES 9) installation server by: copy the first cd to a directory, rename media.1 to media.0 copy the rest of the cd's to the same directory.

Then you can use nfs or ftp to access the server...

But then one can get into problems when adding a install source in yast. The only one you get is CORE but not SLES (or the other way around) but by editing /var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x0000000x it's possible to fix that.

But when making a inst. server for e.g. SuSE 9.3 then you just have to export the mounted iso (of the dvd.. if using cds then one can copy the cd's to a directory)

regards Jonas

Okay, great! I originally tried it the way that you are suggesting, but I ran into what sounds like the problem you mention with adding an install source in yast. I think I only got SLES. Can you give me the specifics on what I need to edit in .../IS_CACHE_0x0000000x or point me to where I can read up on these files? Thanks for your help! I'm going to try it right now. Allison