Hi Andi, I'm a reasonably capable engineer, but this document confused me a bit...Can you clarify it a bit for me? I understand that the boot CD needs the /yast/order file in order to specify my http:// source which is the original 9.1 DVD. It looks like I don't need the /yast/instorder file since I only have one source. However, I do not have a boot CD for 9.1. How do I make one on which to put the /yast/order file? That part I couldn't find in the document. I do know how to make iso images and the like, so if you point me in the right direction, that would help. Thanks. On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 15:02, Andi Kleen wrote:

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So my question is, how can I update this 8.0 box to 9.1 using a DVD in another systems drive?

See http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/multiplesource.html on how to set up a suse network installation source. It is for SLES8-SP3, but applies near completely to 9.1 too.

-Andi

Hi Andi, This worked well, thanks for the tip on where to get that boot disk. One other thing, in rebuild of the latest 2.6.5 kernel on the SUSE website, despite setting the CFGNAME and CFGRELEASE in the .config via 'make config', the kernel is always built with 'default' as the tag line. Modules and installation work as expected, with the right 'CFG' variable. Grepping through the makefiles, I couldn't find the reference to 'default' except in arch/x86_64/defconfig. Any suggestions? Regards, Phil On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 17:14, Andi Kleen wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:06:51 +0200 "Philip J. Mucci" wrote:

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Hi Andi,

I'm a reasonably capable engineer, but this document confused me a bit...Can you clarify it a bit for me?

I understand that the boot CD needs the /yast/order file in order to specify my http:// source which is the original 9.1 DVD. It looks like I don't need the /yast/instorder file since I only have one source.

The order files are loaded from the network source. Just use F3 -> http install and point it to the URL.

To boot you can use the boot iso image from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/x86_64/9.1/boot/boot.iso

-Andi