On Tuesday 03 June 2003 13:58, Tom Emerson wrote:
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 6:24 am, Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Mon June 2 2003 10:14 pm, Michael Sacco wrote:
Open up YaST and go to Change Source of Installation. Add an ftp one, such as this: ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/yast-source
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When I attempt this I get an error:
Unable to create installation source from URL 'ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/suse/suse/i386/supplementary/KD E/ update_for_8.2/' Details: ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media)
The answer seems to be "keep trying" -- if the ftp server you are trying to reach is "full", you're session will be denied [yast checks the target for some form of disk ID, which means it tries to log on right then and there] If yast cannot establish a session, it reports no file found -- keep trying [or try a less busy server/mirror] until it goes through.
When performing the update, you may get the same thing when you start: a pop-up box telling you to insert the CD into the FTP source... keep retrying until you "get" a session [after which you can safely walk away until it's done]
ALSO, someone mentioned this technique blew away their gnome packages -- REMEMBER to UNCHECK the box marked "delete outdated or unmaintained packages", and if truly paranoid, click the "details" button to be sure no non-SuSE packages are slated for withdrawal...
Also remember that it seems to break the YaST Online Update; it goes into a loop on the "OK - Abandon" dialog and never recovers. The fix seems to be to revert to an older version of Qt/KDE, which I forgot until after I had done this upgrade. Oops. Mark Almeida