Hi Eric,
1. start with a clean 8.1 install tree 2. move the 8.1 updates into the tree 3. update the package_desc stuff to be consistient
Point 1: insert DVD # mount -o ro /cdrom && cd /cdrom && df -k . Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdc 4481888 4481888 0 100% /media/cdrom # cp -a . /net/lin_suse8.1 # diff -r --brief . /net/lin_suse8.1 # cd / && umount /cdrom # cd /net/lin_suse8.1/suse/src # du -sk . 1808706 . # rm *.src.rpm Point 2 and 3 is briefly described on http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~stoltze/projekte/autoinstall/suse81/ Regards Christian -- Christian Stoltze Computer Science, University of Constance (Lake Constance/SW-Germany) Email: Christian.Stoltze@uni-konstanz.de Voice: +49 (0)7531 88-4448 Fax: +49 (0)7531 88-3577