On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:12 AM, lynn
On Thursday 19 November 2009 16:02:02 Greg Freemyer wrote:
Thus, for installation, it is more interesting a "live" dvd. The loaded image can be small, but it would have all the rpms there for installation.
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Hi Any filesystem would do so long as it had most of the files. The reason it's more interesting is that it would be much quicker than zypper dup with only Internet connection speed to rely upon. A recent zypper dup -d and zypper dup took over 6 hours on a netbook that doesn't have a dvd drive. Booting from a like kde cd gives it only a few files. The rest have to be downloaded. That's ok if you have a fast connection and you have the knowledge of how to get e.g. broadcom wireless working. Saludos L x
Lynn,
For your situation I think zypper dup straight from the DVD is the solution. I don't think it is documented anywhere, but you can:
Follow the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade
And when it tells you to add the OS 11.2 online repos, add the OS 11.2 DVD as a repo instead.
If it works (and I can't think of a reason it would not), please update the Upgrade page to discuss using the DVD as the repo as an option.
Good Luck Greg
Thanks. I'd like to do that but what if the netbook doen't have a dvd drive? That's why I'd like a bootable dvd usb memory. L x
Lynn, Note that nothing in my advice involved "booting" the dvd, just mounting it. So making a mountable USB thumb drive with the 11.2 repos from the DVD should be possible in lots of ways. Possibly the easiest is just copy the repo directory from the DVD to the thumb drive. Then point zypper at it and zypper dup. (I have not tested this, but I can't see why this would fail.) Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org