[ale] Confused by downloadable SuSE 10.0 DVD

[Geoffrey]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> All
> 
> I'm still trying to find mt_st for SUSE 10 and per
> http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/professional/mt_st.html
> it is located on the DVD.
> 
> I only have the downloaded DVD (the OSS version?).
> 
> I have mounted it loopback and can see all of the contents.  The file
> /suse/i586/mt_st-0.7-423.i586.rpm is not there.  The /suse/i586
> directory is there and full of other packages, but nothing that looks
> like mt_st.
> 
> Surely mt_st is not a "commercial" package.  What is going on, and can
> someone with a purchased 10.0 DVD send me that rpm?
> 
> FYI: I'm having SCSI tape issues with 10.0 and historically I've found
> that calling stinit from the mt_st package is necessary for my tape to
> work.

Looking at my purchased dvd of 10.0 I see the following:

/media/dvd/suse/i586/mt_st-0.7-423.i586.rpm
/media/dvd/suse/x86_64/mt_st-0.7-423.x86_64.rpm

28K.  I'll send it to you if you like, let me know.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey