I just updated (clean install) to 8.0. I am trying to figure how to do some things i used to do with yast in previous versions with yast2 now. Since I have a slow link, i am in the habbit of downloading the complete update tree for my distribution, then using yast to update the packages from the local hard drive. On my fresh install of 8.0 I have not been able to do this. I go to yast2 online update and select an installation source of hard disk under the expert button and give it the full path to the local mirror of the updated SuSE packages. When i then try to update, I get several lines like "Could not copy patch-information" then a box stating "Cannot get the patches from the server. Try another SuSE FTP/HTTP server." I have been able to update some packages via ftp. I also took a look at the support database and was not able to find a similar issue (there was a 7.3 issue of a missing update.inf file, but this does exist). Is it possible to update individual packages that are stored on a local hard drive in the same way it was done in yast1? The options available seem to indicate this can be done, but I have not been able to get it to work yet. -david