I just purchased openSUSE 11.2 x64 on DVD from osdisc.com, as well as the 5 x64 repository DVD’s. The base install went fine, but when I try to add those DVD’s to my software repositories using yast they all have the same listed name, “repository” - I can change that to show “repository disk 1” etc, but when I go to install stuff and the software installer asks for “repository disk 1” I put that in the dvd drive, and it cannot recognise it, spits it out and asks for the same disk again…hmmmm. Should I not change the default name that comes up when each DVD is added to the list? If I leave them unchanged will I be told which is the correct disk to insert, remembering that in the list they all have the same name?
All disks read/checksum fine.
I must be doing something wrong, anyone have any clues?
Chrisblob wrote:
> I just purchased openSUSE 11.2 x64 on DVD from osdisc.com, as well as
> the 5 x64 repository DVD’s. The base install went fine, but when I try
> to add those DVD’s to my software repositories using yast they all have
> the same listed name, “repository” - I can change that to show
> “repository disk 1” etc, but when I go to install stuff and the software
> installer asks for “repository disk 1” I put that in the dvd drive, and
> it cannot recognise it, spits it out and asks for the same disk
> again…hmmmm. Should I not change the default name that comes up when
> each DVD is added to the list? If I leave them unchanged will I be told
> which is the correct disk to insert, remembering that in the list they
> all have the same name?
Back when openSUSE was 5 CDs you loop-mounted the isos to /foo/cd{1…5},
pointing YaST at the repository /foo or /foo/cd1 (don’t remember which
one exactly) and it would find all files.
Why are there 5 repo DVDs? Are they of different repos? Are they labelled with the repos they contain? Or are they just 5 snapshots of the repos at different dates? I don’t know OSDisc.com’s offerings so it all sounds strange.
Looking at one of them it has a directory structure like this - /oss/x86_64/ and the x86_64 folder is full of 6000+ rpms, a couple of files with *.rp suffix, and a couple with x86_6 suffix. Other discs seem to be non-oss, updates etc. There are no primary.xml.gz or other files I would associate with “proper” repos in yast. There is this brief readme on the first disc…
How to install your openSUSE repository DVD
Click on the openSUSE main menu in the left corner of the desktop.
Select Computer menu and click on YaST (control center).
Click on Software Management. Wait for the package manager to load.
Select the Configuration menu and click on Repositories.
Click on the Add button in the left corner of the window.
Insert your openSUSE repository DVD in your DVD drive. From the list of media
types select DVD, then click on Next.
Wait while the package manager creates a configuration file.
Your repository DVD should be enabled (a check mark next to its listing should be displayed). Disabling the other repositories will allow you to search only
the contents of the DVD in your DVD drive.
Select the source of the repository from the list shown and click OK.
After doing that for all 5 discs I tried to install something and when it asked for repo disc 1 I popped that in, it installed a couple of packages, then spat the disc out and asked for the same disc again! Ridiculous!
I’m quite positive I followed the instructions to the letter, but will try one more time just to ensure I followed step 9 with each disc - the instructions don’t tell me to repeat the process with each disc, but I can assume I’ll need to. Who knows? Only 1 thing is certain - there is some mighty steam pressure building under my collar, because this kind of problem should NOT happen.
We’re in short-term rental accomodation and stuck on mobile broadband (sometimes very slow, we’re on best plan which is only 5GB/month) until August when we move flat. We’d have setup ADSL2 already, but all such accounts require 12 month minimum term here in Aus. Moot point anyway presently as I cannot get our Huawei e169 modem working in 11.2…
I’ve emailed osdisc.com to let them know the DVD’s don’t integrate with yast properly - still waiting for a response…
One last thing - yast picks up that the software on the DVD’s is the same as that listed on the default online repos, and offers the option of using the DVD versions instead, despite the fact I’d already disabled the online ones. I’ll try to tell yast to use the DVD versions instead, as that is about the only thing left I haven’t done. Surely yast would request the DVD versions anyway if the online repos are disabled? :\
Under normal circumstances this is what you would do:
Have both DVD and the online repo enabled for the main OSS and non-OSS repos. Reason is there are a small number of packages that are only online.
Alternatively you could disable the online repos, and run a small risk of not finding a few rarely used packages.
Both DVD and online repos should be at the same priority.
The online update repo should not be disabled, those contain the bug fix updates and there is no DVD equivalent to it.
You can also register the ISO image of the DVD repo so that it doesn’t prompt you to mount the DVD. This assumes you are willing to keep the ISO file on the HD using up 4GB of space.
If I use ISO’s that might be faster coming from hard disc, but surely I would strike the same issues since nothing about the ISO’s is different to the DVD’s, other than the medium they’re stored on?
I’ve got enough room, but I’m just not sure it’ll solve the problem.
In the meantime I got internet working, so can pull stuff from online…
Well I’m talking about official Novell ISOs, not ones made by third parties, which may or may not have the right structure to be recognised as a repository.
