Hi, I have previously installed SuSe 10.3 from DVD, but find it a pain to always look for & insert the DVD when updating pacjages or installing new packages. How do I copy the source files from DVD into a directory so that it can be used as a software repository by YAST (ZYPP)? All the info here points to actually installing SuSe from disk or nework, which I do not want to do, i.e I do not want to change anything on the booting side.
venterap wrote:
> Hi, I have previously installed SuSe 10.3 from DVD, but find it a pain
> to always look for & insert the DVD when updating pacjages or installing
> new packages. How do I copy the source files from DVD into a directory
> so that it can be used as a software repository by YAST (ZYPP)? All the
> info here points to actually installing SuSe from disk or nework, which
> I do not want to do, i.e I do not want to change anything on the booting
> side.
Copy the disk’s contents into any directory, and point yast to that
directory. You can also create an iso9660 image from the DVD
( dd if=/dev/dvd of=openSUSE-11.3-DVD.iso ) and then loop mount it
( mount -o loop /foo/openSUSE-11.3-DVD.iso /suse/10.3 ) or via fstab
and do the same.
Kind regards,
Andreas Stieger
In fact, after dumping the DVD as an ISO image using the dd command (mentioned by AndreasStieger), you can go to the Yast tool and add repository. While doing this, you can choose “ISO image” option and Yast will automatically mount it internally whenever needed.
syampillai wrote:
> In fact, after dumping the DVD as an ISO image using the dd command
> (mentioned by AndreasStieger), you can go to the Yast tool and add
> repository. While doing this, you can choose “ISO image” option and Yast
> will automatically mount it internally whenever needed.
AFAIR this wasn’t a feature in 10.3 yet, but i may be wrong.
Kind regards,
Andreas Stieger