instserver in pre SUSE-10.0 distros

Hi list,

have a question regarding the instserver setup since opensuse/SUSE 10.1 Beta 
releases.

Until know it was quite easy to setup an instserver with a "stream" directory 
and mounted isos.
I mostly used following setup:

ls -ls <http-install-source>
 
media -> /inst/suse/media
content -> media/SUSE-PROF/9/i386/CD1/content
control.xml -> media/SUSE-PROF/9/i386/CD1/control.xml
media.1 -> media/SUSE-PROF/9/i386/CD1/media.1
boot
yast
driverupdate -> xxx
directory.yast

I could loop-mount the isos to the media-dir (CD1 to CDX) and everything worked 
fine.
When I pointed the installdir to http://my_installserver_/http-install-source
AutoYast found all CD's, the additional media.x Dirs,  setup/description files, 
RPM's and other.

Since the 10.x Releases this setup does not work for me anymore.
I now have to copy all CD's in one directory. Yast looks for media.1 .. media.x 
in this directory
If Autoyast does not find the directories suse, media.{2,3,4,5} then it will 
stop to work.
This directories where not required until now.
The autoyast routines in initrd seem to have changed.

This design does not allow me to work with loop mounted isos. I could work with 
unionfs to
go round this but that would more complicate the setup.

Does anybody know how to get it working like the old fashion?

Thanks,
Jochen


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