Thomas Necker wrote:

Hi

A question related to the new updates for SuSE 8.2. I have a FTP-server as installation server, a TFTP-server for the configuration files, I boot the PC to install from the original SuSE 8.2 CD having the info file on floppy in this PC. I have two problems already discussed on this list: - No execution of Perl-Post-Installation scripts. I copied the new RPMs on the installation server overwriting the original ones. That works, Perl scripts are now executed. Thanks! - Keeping partitions. To solve this problem I'd need to update the boot cd. There is a description to press the Alt-key during boot for being asked for a floppy - well despite pressing Alt really hard, the PC keeps booting :-( Then I thought that "F3 - Driver Update" on the Bootmanager selection screen would be worth a try. And indeed, it requests a disk. However, I can't figure out, whether the patches are really applied, and the problem "no space left on /dev/hdb/" stays. Is there a simple way to apply the patches in my configuration. Preferably a patched CD image I could just burn and boot from?

The option with the floppy in the README is outdated and wont work for 8.2. To make an update floppy for 8.2 using the update image, format the floppy and create the following directory on it linux/suse/i386-8.2/y2update and unpack the y2update.gz image into this directory. (gunzip it, mount loop it, and copy it) To make sure the data is used, before yast2 is started, there is a message about "extension disk". If you miss that, switch to a different console and see that /update/y2update is mounted. Sorry about the confusion. Anas

Thanks, Thomas