[wellylug] Re: SUSE 9.3 install disk question

Donald Rogers dero9753 at ihug.co.nz
Sun Oct 16 09:34:00 NZDT 2005


>>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.
>>    
>>
Brent wrote:

>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.
>
Thanks, Brent. I deleted the DVD it had in the list of sources, and 
added the one in the drive. It's easy when you know how. YaST can 
apparently tell the difference between the disks.
Regards,
Donald




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