adding an installation source

[dimas]

this is my second new thread in a row, i'm sorry - but this question is a bit different...

i can't add an installation source in yast (suse 10.1). i do everything according to the 'perfect setup' (using mirrors from opensuse.org) but after adding a mirror computer seems to hang for 10-20 minutes and then displays 'an error occurred while preparing the installation source'.

at the same time my internet connection works - i can get files with wget easily...
also, the installion sources that i'm trying to add are accessible from another pc...

[dimas]

By the way, I can't even add a local directory as an installation source (after copying all files from suse dvd-rom)

The error I get is described above.

Please help me...

[falko]

That's the crappy SuSE 10.1... I had some similar issues, as you can see here: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_suse_10.1

[vbrookie]

I guess you can add the installation source manually using y2pmsh (Yast2 Package Manager Shell)
I haven't tested it but it sound promising.
1) Install y2pmsh from DVD: yast -i y2pmsh
2) Excute: y2pmsh
3) Add installation source: source -a http://your.mirror.url/and/installation/source

Hope this works for yyou.

[dimas]

thank you for your reply! however, I became so frustrated with suse 10.1 over these 2 days, that I just ditched it and installed fedora core 5

It was not an easy decision - because I always aspire to get down to the root of the problem... I guess it just was too much for me...

by the way, I had this problem with installation sources on only one pc (on my second pc it went well) - I don't know why!