Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Hartmut Meyer <hartmut.meyer@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 14:06, Jon Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Hartmut Meyer wrote:

> >   http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/10/thallma_you_oldpatches.html
>
> Yeah, that sounds like it, but here are some points:
>
> 1. if you can't upgrade a running system (Debian can, most others can)
> without BOOTING FROM THE CD or DVD, then why does YaST have the option
> available?

You can add other installation sources that provide newer (but non-core) 
packages like

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.3/yast-source

And than use this YaST2 module to update all available packages.

> 2. Half of my machines don't have CD drives, much less CDROMS, and none
> of them have floppy drives.  A Network Install is basically the only way
> to upgrade them.

Tough ...


Greetings from Stuhr
hartmut