Hi, I want to update my Suse 8.1 and install the patches. But i don't want to use YOU, because my connection at home has no good performance. Instead, i prefer downloading patches & updates at work, and burn them to a cd. Can i do this? Downloading all patchaes & rpm's from a ftp server's suse/i386/update/8.1 ? Then at home, can Yast make an update from this cd? TIA, OGUZ EREN YAPI VE KREDI BANKASI A.S. / TEKNOLOJI YONETIMI Tel : 262 647 21 29 Fax : 262 647 17 12 www.ykteknoloji.com ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bu mesajda, yalnizca muhatabini ilgilendiren, kisiye veya kuruma ozel bilgiler yer aliyor olabilir. Mesajin muhatabi degilseniz, icerigini ve varsa ekindeki dosyalari kimseye aktarmayiniz ya da kopyalamayiniz. Boyle bir durumda lutfen gondereni uyarip, mesaji imha ediniz. Gostermis oldugunuz hassasiyetten oturu tesekkür ederiz. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. Thank you for your co-operation.
Quoting oeren@ykb.com:
Hi,
I want to update my Suse 8.1 and install the patches. But i don't want to use YOU, because my connection at home has no good performance. Instead, i prefer downloading patches & updates at work, and burn them to a cd.
Can i do this? Downloading all patchaes & rpm's from a ftp server's suse/i386/update/8.1 ? Then at home, can Yast make an update from this cd?
yes that works :) -- m vr gr Frederik Vos VosBerg@SuSE & L4L http://www.vosberg.be
I want to update my Suse 8.1 and install the patches. But i don't want to use YOU, because my connection at home has no good performance. Instead, i prefer downloading patches & updates at work, and burn them to a cd.
Can i do this? Downloading all patchaes & rpm's from a ftp server's suse/i386/update/8.1 ? Then at home, can Yast make an update from this cd?
FV> yes that works :) That sounds interesting... I would think that this might come in handy if you had to rebuild your machine at a later point in time. -- __________________________ DJ mailto: linux_programmer@hotmail.com
* oeren@ykb.com;
Hi,
I want to update my Suse 8.1 and install the patches. But i don't want to use YOU, because my connection at home has no good performance. Instead, i prefer downloading patches & updates at work, and burn them to a cd.
Can i do this? Downloading all patchaes & rpm's from a ftp server's suse/i386/update/8.1 ? Then at home, can Yast make an update from this cd?
http://dinamizm.ath.cx/articles/you.html -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx
This doc fits exactly to my case! (I have the suse unofficial faq printed
as a book; but i somehow didn't think of looking at it.) But still i have
some questions :
Now i'm downloading with cuteFTP from ftp.suse.com. I'll create the cd as
mentioned in the doc. I'll copy the files in i386/update/8.1/patches.
Please warn me if i'm wrong. These patch files are very little files with
no extensions; named like e.g. bind8-13986, directory, etc.
But there are also patch.rpm's (and also full rpm's) on
i386/update/8.1/rpm directory. I think i also have to install them to
update my system. I'm confused. Do i need both patch files & rpm's? Which
one does yast use when making patch-cd update?
Please make things clear for me..
Thanks a lot..
Togan Muftuoglu
Hi,
I want to update my Suse 8.1 and install the patches. But i don't want to
use YOU, because my connection at home has no good performance. Instead, i prefer downloading patches & updates at work, and burn them to a cd.
Can i do this? Downloading all patchaes & rpm's from a ftp server's suse/i386/update/8.1 ? Then at home, can Yast make an update from this cd?
http://dinamizm.ath.cx/articles/you.html -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com OGUZ EREN YAPI VE KREDI BANKASI A.S. / TEKNOLOJI YONETIMI Tel : 262 647 21 29 Fax : 262 647 17 12 www.ykteknoloji.com ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bu mesajda, yalnizca muhatabini ilgilendiren, kisiye veya kuruma ozel bilgiler yer aliyor olabilir. Mesajin muhatabi degilseniz, icerigini ve varsa ekindeki dosyalari kimseye aktarmayiniz ya da kopyalamayiniz. Boyle bir durumda lutfen gondereni uyarip, mesaji imha ediniz. Gostermis oldugunuz hassasiyetten oturu tesekkür ederiz. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. Thank you for your co-operation.
I'm a newbie. 8.1 has trouble with USRobotics external. I've found similar lamentations and long series of ineffective help on various boards. Perhaps 8.1 and USRobotics are simply incompatible, perhaps the 8.1 patch & update has resolved some of these issues. Can I download the 8.1 patch/update into an XP partition or directly to CD while using XP (and the US Robotics)? Thnx, Teresa
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 10:08, Teresa Binstock wrote:
I'm a newbie. 8.1 has trouble with USRobotics external. I've found similar lamentations and long series of ineffective help on various boards. Perhaps 8.1 and USRobotics are simply incompatible, perhaps the 8.1 patch & update has resolved some of these issues. Can I download the 8.1 patch/update into an XP partition or directly to CD while using XP (and the US Robotics)?
Yes you can get a patch and then transfer it to your SuSE Install when you reboot into SuSE. You will need to mount your Windows partition in order to get the patch that you downloaded. Question, Did SuSE find your modem when you installed it? What COM port is it on? In SuSE/linux the COM ports are /dev/ttyS0 for COM 1, /dev/ttyS1 for COM 2 and so on. Or is it using /dev/modem? If /dev/modem, Can you see if the link /dev/modem is pointing to the correct port by using this command ls -al /dev/modem. -- Marshall "Nothing is impossible, We just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."
* oeren@ykb.com;
Now i'm downloading with cuteFTP from ftp.suse.com. I'll create the cd as mentioned in the doc. I'll copy the files in i386/update/8.1/patches. Please warn me if i'm wrong. These patch files are very little files with no extensions; named like e.g. bind8-13986, directory, etc.
i386/update/8.1/ direcyory is currently toganm@earth:~/projects/sfnet/suse/articles> du -hs /usr/local/update/i386/update/8.1/ 621M /usr/local/update/i386/update/8.1
But there are also patch.rpm's (and also full rpm's) on i386/update/8.1/rpm directory. I think i also have to install them to update my system. I'm confused. Do i need both patch files & rpm's? Which one does yast use when making patch-cd update?
toganm@earth:~> l /usr/local/update/i386/update/8.1/ drwxr-sr-x 6 455 73 144 Nov 6 15:17 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 toganm users 96 Jan 3 08:01 ../ drwxr-sr-x 2 455 73 328 Dec 9 14:41 disks/ drwxr-sr-x 2 455 73 2952 Dec 20 19:30 patches/ drwxr-sr-x 6 455 73 144 Oct 25 16:25 rpm/ drwxr-sr-x 2 455 73 120 Oct 15 15:25 scripts/ ../disks directory holds the files like bootdisk and modules (used for installation ../patches directory holds the files which are actually descriptions for YOU to display the information and also includes where the file is located i586 or i686 ../rpm has the following structure drwxr-sr-x 6 455 73 144 Oct 25 16:25 ./ drwxr-sr-x 6 455 73 144 Nov 6 15:17 ../ drwxr-sr-x 2 455 73 43320 Dec 20 19:30 i586/ drwxr-sr-x 2 455 73 224 Oct 25 16:33 i686/ drwxr-sr-x 2 455 73 10128 Dec 5 19:07 noarch/ drwxr-sr-x 2 455 73 144 Oct 24 19:01 nosrc/ since some patch rpms are noarch (archirecture independant) and some have nosource available ../scripts directory has the extra files needed (ie PRO Office CD installation script) So basically you need all these directories but AFAIK downloading only the files *.patch.rpm will make YOU happy since the way YOU works is it will only install the patch if the previous version has already installed on the system. Due to the size of the download and the directory structure I have found rsync a valuable tool as after the very first run it will only download the differences saving bandwidth Hope the above helps. -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx
* Togan Muftuoglu;
So basically you need all these directories but AFAIK downloading only the files *.patch.rpm will make YOU happy since the way YOU works is it will only install the patch if the previous version has already installed on the system.
Just to make clear the patches directory has to be downloaded also without it YOU cannot build the relation of patch.rpm to the patches -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx
Hi, I haven't created my patch-cd yet. I'm sorry but i have to ask a few more questions : /scripts (i'll dwld it) /rpm /patches (i'll dwld it) /disks (i'll dwld it) So let me know if i'm wrong about /rpm : I need only the patch.rpm's for i have suse 8.1 already. In rpm/src & rpm/nosrc, there are no patch.rpm's, so i won't need them. From the other 3 directories, (/rpm/noarch, /rpm/i586 & /rpm/i686) i will dwld only the patch rpm's. Not the info files, not the full rpm's. There are also some directories named "whatever.rpm". But i can't get them. Is that a problem? Thanks for all the other suggestions, but i'm downloading at a windoze machine with CuteFTP. But i'll take a look at them one time..
* oeren@ykb.com;
patch rpm's. Not the info files, not the full rpm's. There are also some directories named "whatever.rpm". But i can't get them. Is that a problem?
AFAIK there are no whatever.rpm directories On the otherhand they are symbolic links to the full.rpm yast2-packagemanager.rpm -> yast2-packagemanager-2.6.36-2.i586.rpm -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx
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