On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:06:51 +0200
"A. den Oudsten"
I upgraded from SuSE 10.0 to SUSE Linux 10.1 and lost in doing so shlibs5 which I need for running my good old WordPerfect8 for Linux. I got that shlibs5 in 10.0 from my Linux 8.1 DVD. In 10.1 Yast refuses to create an installation source for that DVD. In 10.1 Yast can't configure a CDROM anymore. When I try to mount that DVD I get the message 'Can't find /media/dvd/ in fstab'. As 'su' I tried to change fstab with Open Office. It failed. Let me try to help. First, OpenOffice is NOT a text editor. Do not use it to edit a plain text file. You can use gedit or kedit or vi or emacs, but you do not have to do this for 10.1 since the CD/DVD is a udev device.
Try removing media from the drive. Make sure YaST2 is not running.
Check the mount table:
from a shell run the 'mount' command with no options.
It should show something like:
/dev/hdb1 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/hdb8 on /home type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/hdb6 on /usr/local type reiserfs (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
Now put your 8.1 DVD in, and you should get a dialog box asking what to
do. You can "do nothing". Rerun the mount command and you should see
somethinbg like I did with the 9.0 DVD:
/dev/hdd on /media/SU900_001 type iso9660
(ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,utf8)
If you do see this, you can then run YaST2/Installation source.
There are a couple of additional tricks you can do if this does not
work.
--
Jerry Feldman