Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (314 mails)

[Ron Lau <rlau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What I meant was, apply the patch CD to the installed OS by booting from
the patch CD. :o



On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 08:36 -0600, Ron Lau wrote:
> I looked and searched but couldn't find anything. (english section)
> 
> Out of desperation, I ended up installing 9.1 32bit (because I dont have
> a DVD drive, and 9.1 doesn't recognize my on-board nic, so I had to use
> the CD's) Then I added support for my nic, then I upgraded by NFS to
> 9.2, thinking I could then (without rebooting) add the PatchCD, but YaST
> failed to appply it. Now my poor little box is once again lifeless :( 
> 
> Is there a way to apply the patchCD without actually booting the
> machine?
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 23:05 -0600, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > Ron Lau <rlau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > HELP!
> > >
> > > I need the patch CD to install 9.2 on an AMD with sata, but I don't
> > have
> > > a DVD drive so I need to use my NFS server.
> > >
> > > How do I merge the patchCD with the 9.2 install files so that I can
> > > install from the nfs server and use the PatchCD kernel?
> > 
> > If you just want to use the kernel, then boot from it...
> > 
> > Otherwise: There should be some SDB Articles on portal.suse.com about
> > this,
> > 
> > Andreas
> -- 
> R.
> 
> 
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R.