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