On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:31, Hugo wrote:
Hi!
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:19:07 -0700, Brad Bourn
wrote: sounds like the particular mirror you use isn't available.
try a different one.
YOU (suseWatcher) remembers the last one selected
I checked the ones I have here at work... 9.1 versions used (in YOU) "Germany: SUSE LINUX AG" ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse and the 9.0 versions (totally different list, with only 2 entries) use "http://sdb.suse.de/download" Last succesfull update 22 days ago and the computer is online all the time.
For the 9.0 I selected now the other option: "http://sdb2.suse.de/download" ... after a while, I got Authorization-dialog askin for Username and Password! What's this? With empty username and passwd I only got error. Now, the same thing happened for the other option also. Nice one, SuSE!
For the 9.1 I selected "Sweden: SUNET" which sould be the closest one (I've had trouble with FUNET, which has sometimes missed some packages). It's now been "Retrieving information about new updates" for 5 minutes.
Neither one seems to work. What now? Is this Novell stuff?
No, this is traditional suse stuff. ftp.suse.com is always overloaded. Never use it. And sunet isn't very good either, unless you're on telia broadband (I think they use the same backbone) Rule #1 is always use an http link. http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse is usually good sdb and sdb2 are for the SLES Enterprise Server stuff, which is why you get a password dialog. Though I can't for the life of me understand why you see it in 9.0. You should only get those on SLES machines. Did this machine use to be a SLES?