I am experimenting with SuSE 8.0 and i get into trouble quite often. It is a price worth paying for knowledge. Anyway I need to know what is the best way to download and keep current the update packages so that whenever i have to do a fresh install I can update my system of off the hard disk instead of spending 3 or 4 hours downloading. I have already set up a partition that does not get formatted to keep files there. Thanks in advance Harry a.
On Mon November 4 2002 03:07 pm, harry302 wrote:
I am experimenting with SuSE 8.0 and i get into trouble quite often. It is a price worth paying for knowledge.
Anyway I need to know what is the best way to download and keep current the update packages so that whenever i have to do a fresh install I can update my system of off the hard disk instead of spending 3 or 4 hours downloading.
I have already set up a partition that does not get formatted to keep files there.
You sound just like your in my situation. I have learned quite a bit doing that. Here are some options: 1. Make two partition on your hard drive using the ext3 filesystem and mount them as /var and /download. For some reason when you rebuild a SuSE box if you have extra Rieser File system partitions it warns about you not being to access them if you don't format them. /var is where YaST2 stores its downloaded patches. /download is where you'll store the updated RPMs you download. Then if you blow up your system, and really do have to rebuild you can tell the SuSE install to not format these partitions, and viola, you have access to all the good update RPMs. 2. Make a "rescue" floppy! This has turned out to be my savior many times in the last week! With this you can insert CD1 boot up and select "rescue system" from the startup menu. You can then login as root and fix config files if that is what you're playing with. for example once I was up with the rescue disk I would create a new directory called /newroot and mount my original root under that, and so on getting all the original partitions mounted and then determining what I screwed up from there. You can just mount /boot as /boot and access that directory. 3. Get a tape drive and backup your system in a good state just before you start tinkering with it. There are many ways to do this all of which are included on the 8.0 or 8.1 Pro CDs and I imagine some are on the personal edition. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! "The act of faith is the obedience of the understanding to God revealing, and the product of that is the obedience of the will to God commanding." Matthew Henry, on Romans 1:5
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