[wellylug] SUSE 9.3 install disk question

[Brent Wood]

--- Donald Rogers <dero9753 at ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> Brent may know the answer to this one. You helped me install Suse 9.3 at
> the Installfest. It works fine. The only thing is it won't install
> further software from the disk that came with the book "SUSE Linux 9.3
> for Dummies", which I bought at the Installfest. My PC can read the disk
> okay and can boot from it. I thought that you installed from a disk that 
> came from another copy of the same book. Maybe that's not so.

Nope. The install was from a copy of the "normal" SuSE 9.3 DVD. I believe the
one in the book has been tweaked a bit. 

If you start YaST, you'll get the up front menu with the install software
option, it also has an icon/option for changing/adding install media. Fire this
up, tell it to use a new DVD, & stick your DVD in. That should work.

You can also browse the DVD with Konqueror, click on an RPM & it will offer you
the option of install with YaST directly. I'm also using an online repository
which has more & updated packages than the DVD. If you have broadband access,
that may be preferable?

Cheers,

  Brent

  
> 
> Could I:
> 1. reinstall from my copy of the disk?

If you want, but I don't really see any advantage.

> 2. boot up from my copy of the disk and run some function to adopt my disk?

Not needed, as described above

> 3. get Suse 10.0 and upgrade to that?

Certainly an option, but I'd give OpenSuSE v10.0 a little while to settle in
before jumping in. unless you wanna play :-)


Cheers,

  Brent