Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Craig Ambrose <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 29 April 2004 12:28 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> Things like that are never ever published through YOU, whether it's
> possible or not. But you most certainly don't need the CDs, it is quite
> possible to do a network install from ftp or nfs, when the files become
> available.
>
> What you would do is add the directory on the ftp or nfs server as an
> installation source in yast, enable it, and disable the old installation
> source. Then select "System update" in yast, let it run, then after one
> single reboot you're good to go with the new version.

I'd really love to do this, and I've had a stab at it, but I must admit that I 
couldn't figure out what directory on the SuSE ftp server to use as the "New 
Installation Source". I'm still just using my cd's as my only installation 
souce (although I have YOU working fine for online updates).

Would you be able to point me at a particular path? Or define what YaST's 
requirements are for such a path?

Craig