[TriLUG] SuSE 9.0 Pro YaST installation source media problem

[Jesse Aaron Safir]

Ron et al,

> Yast is a bit picky about the way that you define he directory paths for
> reading packages from disk.
>
> The way I usually do that is make iso images of the individual disks:
> mkdir /SuSE
> mkdir /SuSE/ISO
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/SuSE/ISO/9_cd1.iso
> mkdir /SuSE/cd1
> mount -o loop /SuSE/ISO/9_cd1.iso /SuSE/cd1
> and repeat for the rest of the disks (just replace cd1 with cd2)
> Then in yast, software - Change Source of Installation, and add a new local
> directory of /SuSe/cd1.
>
> Make sure you turn off the initial entry for the cd.
>
> That should do it. Let me know if you are still having problems.

Okay...I followed the instructions but when I bring up YaST, my only
choices for "Filter" are Selections, Package Groups, Search, Installation
Summary.  When I used the CDs before and went to "Selections", it would
show both the installed packages and the NOT installed ones.  Now that I
have the ISO images on the hard drive and have mounted them, it only shows
me what I already have installed.  How do I get YaST to show me ALL of the
packages on the mounted ISO images and not just the ones I already have
installed?

Thanks...

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