openSUSE 11.1 - Repositories?!

[besuch]

Hi.
Today I tried to install openSUSE 11.1 from a DVD on a ppc (MacG4) system.

Yaboot sucessfully booted the kernel and the installation system loadet up the graphics.
After choosing my language (guess its german..) and accepting the license agreement (gpl and so on..)
The installation system startet to auto-checkup my system where its last point on the check list is Adding sources or stuff.

So here it comes: at that point the installation stops and asks me for me repositories. I thought: OK, click DVD and press OK. same question... choose CD ...
fails again.. nervous...

anyhow. i tried to boot from 2 different DVDs , iso image is md5sumed correctly and now i tried to boot from a HDD. where i entered install from HDD (/dev/sda3 in my case i hope thats right "a" for first external device, "3" for its partition?)

i need to now what to enter at this repository line, where are these repositories? ( which is probably the same as the sources list for apt from debian, where i used to hang around 5 years ago... )

so i'm a bit rusty please explain it slooooow to me. ;)
-willi

[dragonbite]

You should be able to get the repository information from the wiki pages:
Package Repositories - openSUSE
Additional YaST Package Repositories - openSUSE

[robopensuse]

Originally Posted by besuch

Hi.
So here it comes: at that point the installation stops and asks me for me repositories. I thought: OK, click DVD and press OK. same question... choose CD ...
fails again.. nervous...

I've seen similar messages when installing from Net and it couldn't find the YaST repository via HTTP or NFS depending how I was installing.

Are you seeing this, after initial kernel loading, and the installer has started.

In that case, it should know how to mount the DVD and where to find the packages to install in it's repo. So, the issue you see, would suggest a driver problem making the DVD unmountable for some reason. ( I don't know the PPC, have you an equivalent of CNTRL-ALT-F2 to run commands as root, whilst the installer is running? )


Or is it post-installation, with a difficulty sorting out update repositaries (because I've seen bug reports on this). In that case you can ignore the setting of software sources for now. The defaults should be correct.

[dragonbite]

I had some error like that once before and had to do a full download and install even though it passed all of the tests.

[robopensuse]

I think it is the point where Software selection is made, after "Preparation" in which case it's frustrating as it lets you spend time on disk partitioning etc, and then fails on something it could have checked, after showing you the welcome screen to read.

[besuch]

Ok, i'll try to mount the dvd..

before:
here is the dialog i got:

while "system analysis"

"Unable to create repository from URL 'cd:///?devices:/dev/hdc'.

Failed to Mount cd:///?devices:/dev/hdc/

Try Again?"


only options where CD and DVD and a text field where i entered "oss non-oss"

confirmed:

"Insert openSUSE 11.1 CD 1"

continue

and then it loops.



brb trying to mount.

[besuch]

****, am i dumb?

mkdir /cdrom
mount -F hfs /dev/hdc /cdrom/
invalid argument
mount -t hfs -o ro,user,exec /dev/hdc /cdrom

in combinations... and also with hfsplus nothing worked?!

hdc must be my cdrom drive there is just hda my harddrive, and hdc, no hdb or hdd....

I'm so close to give up and install fedora.. :/

[stream303]

The repositories kind of threw me in 11.1 on my G5 iMac. When I did a net-install I chose to use

powerpc.opensuse.org

and

/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/

to get me started. I could have used aria2 or manually chosen a mirror, but this was my very first install.

It may not help with your DVD situation, but I wrote up a little thing about netinstalling openSUSE on ppc here:

PPCLinux - 11.1 installation walk-through and comments - PPCLinux

I've still got a lot to learn!

[clicker71]

It seems i have the same problem. But i am trying to boot from HDD and Yast says at the very same place while "installing repositories" that it can not find repo at dev/sda1/openSUSE-11.1-DVD-i586.iso.

Please anybody help!!!!

[besuch]

i also tried with plan B installing from a hard disc but also there i need something like

"Enter Directory On The Server
> /distribution/11.1/repo/oss/"

just for the dvd.

-


btw i dont understand why the installer is asking me for "openSUSE 11.1 CD 1" when the name of the burned image "openSUSE 11.1 1" is. (cd is missing?!)