On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 20:23, E.F.Maurer wrote:
Has anyone else had troubles installing from the dvd? The computer booted fine, but when it got to the software proposal I got a no packages found / media error message. I ended up installing from the cd's and now i can't even change the source of installation to the dvd. Yast doesn't even check the dvd drive, only my cd burner.
I can mount the dvd, and the packages are there, so I don't think it's a media problem.
Aha! I had this exact problem myself: a DVD drive and a CD burner. The problem, if you check /var/log/YaST2/y2log, is that the "dvd:///" URL that YaST is supposedly using is actually "/dev/cdrom" under the covers. What I did was to go to: (I've got all SCSI stuff, so putting actual commands is just going to confuse the issue.) - Create a new link in /dev called "cdrw" that pointed to my CD burner. - Forced the current "cdrom" link to point to my DVD drive. - Left the "dvd" link alone, so that other things could use it that way. - Edited /etc/fstab to reflect the changes. That corrected things for me. NOTE BENE: You may not *want* /dev/cdrom pointing to your DVD drive, but that's what will get YaST's software install working. It's fine by me because I use the DVD for CD's to save wear and tear on my burner. Regards, dk