phillipp
Gar - Thaanks for the response. I have to take a while to digest what you have told me - but if worse comes to worse, I can easily do a clean install. (I read your other advice to someone about that, but lets see.) I have never installed patches before, but lets see. I guess I just go to the site on yur 3rd line below and download whatever it is. I only have a 56k line. Is that enough?
Yes, 56k is enough, it just takes a while...
I think I am going to love 9.0. I had 8.1 installed on 2 desktops but didn't exercise them at all. Thanks for the attention!
Hi Phillip,
Normally with Linux you don't have to do a clean install
You patch instead
but yes you can re-install if you have to..
but that is usually selected rpms and not the whole system.
Many people use "YOU" to install their patches.
Others use apt-get (which I don't)
YOU works well but after a new install,
it can seem to take forever.
YaST2 Control Center --> (root password) --> "on line update"
(YOU stand for YaST2 On-line Update)
I like to use fou4s (because I can do it it an interactive mode)
( fou4s = Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE )
http://fou4s.gaugusch.at/quickstart.shtmlfou4s
(you need to install the fou4s rpm)
fou4s commands for RPM version: (as root)
rpm -Uvh fou4s-0.x.y-z.noarch.rpm # used to install fou4s
fou4s --server # select ftp server (not necessary, default: ftp.gwdg.de)
fou4s -u # get update description files for suse and fou4s
fou4s -e # check for updates, but no download/install (evaluation)
fou4s -i -- interactive # download and install all available updates
# interactive mode
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if you want to do a "quick patch job"
just down load the rpms you think you need into a directory
(you can use the "patch" ones to save time, that what both
fou4s and YOU uses anyways)
and then cd into that directory
and do "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" (as root)
afterwards yoou need to do "SuSEconfig"
(oh, and I mentioned earlier do "rpm --checksig