On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
>
> Following Lenz's advice, I decided to replace my existing version of
> Yast (from SuSE 5.3) with a newer version. The existing version is
> 0.97.4. I downloaded the .rpm file for the newest Yast and then
> started up the old one, specifying "Installation adjustments" and then
> "Installation from a reachable directory". But then, no matter what
> directory I specified, even just "/' or "/usr", I got the message "Could
> not find the installation directory. Please enter an existing
> directory." How can I get past that error message? Is there something
> that Yast is looking for in the directory to consider it valid?
YaST is looking for a complete SuSE source, since you're telling it to
do a complete installation of SuSE :(
You want Choose/Install Packages, then select Install Packages. Type in
or navigate your way to the dir where you have the new YaST rpm and
carry on from there.
Phil
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