On 2006-11-24 19:19, CwCrei wrote: > <snip> > > I find it hard to believe that YaST is so badly written that it > completely stiffs an entire machine just because it can't find a file. > So the fact that the machine stiffs must indicate some more fundamental > problem. Well, you did suggest there is a serious hardware problem. Possibly it isn't Yast, but the hardware that is hanging on some eternal retry. > I was suprised that it took almost three quarters of an hour to download > the initial installation system (/boot/i386/root) from the FTP server. > *Way* slower than the previous machine. This is over a 100Mbps LAN! Ibid. > YaST makes something like another 170 requests from the FTP server, all > of which succeed, until it asks for /add_on_products, which fails
Instead of adding the non-oss stuff to the other structure, you should probably try the same as on the opensuse mirrors: <server_name>/<path-to-opensuse>/install <---- OSS install sources <server_name>/<path-to-opensuse>/non-oss <---- guess what? :-) Otherwise, you may wind up overwriting some important files (eg. contents of the media.1 directory). Also, re-do the install sources structure just to make sure you got it right. If you did it manually before, try the Yast method, and vice versa. You may instead wish to re-master the 5 CD images into one DVD image (http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs), which you can then mount (mount -o loop) on the server and use directly as an installation source. Lots of options, but in the end, your local source certainly should look identical to the "official" mirrors (except for local pathname differences). > But then, I don't see anything called 'add_on_products' on the > mirrorservice.org site either... <blahblah>/non-oss. -- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s² -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
