https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293100#c2 Hylton Conacher <hylton@conacher.co.za> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |hylton@conacher.co.za AssignedTo|jsuchome@novell.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|hylton@conacher.co.za | --- Comment #2 from Hylton Conacher <hylton@conacher.co.za> 2007-07-20 09:14:49 MST --- 1. There is nothing in YAST that hints that you can create a local installation source, other than ;installation sources, which just lists the ones already added/used. 2. Whilst you might know about the yast2-cd-creator, I do not and after just checking on Yast on KDE, did not find it as a listed option. 3. Again I do not find this yast2-instserver module to setup nfs/http/ftp source from my local sources on Yast(KDE). This feature is still missing, as although you have been able to identify the parts needed, a new user would not know of them. He would be told that there is a yast module to do it and they would go into Yast and find that the option is STILL not visibly available. My suggestion is to create a new icon under Yast:System or Yast:Software that says 'Create local install source'. If the user selects it the CD/DVD is requested and mounted and then copied to a location that the user specifies as his/her local installation source. A check box should indicate to the user, whilst creating the local source, that all downloaded patches/deltas/rpms that are downloaded via the online uopdate will also be stored in the local installation source. If the user decides not to create a local installation source of the initial CD/DVD, but that they may want to create a store of the updates downloaded via Yast online update on the local machine. This could be accomplished by adding a secondary icon or option under 'Create local installation source'. As an aside, if the user does a backup of his local installation source then they will have complete updated set of the software initially installed, provided there have been no additional patches released since they last did an online update. Once the user has established this local installation source, they will be able to specify it as an installation source. Should the user/admin require to reload the entire system, for whatever reason, then the boot manager will give the user a chance to either boot from Harddisk or complete a local reinstall. The local reinstall option will read the local update source and the initial CD/DVD image and the updates will be installed as thought the user had just inserted the CD/DVD in the DVD drive. Once this online reinstall has been done, and provided an online update was recently done, there should be no further online updates needed to bring the machine up to a fully patched state. I hope this fully answers your question. Further details on request. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.