Hi, all! This morning my main PC - the household router/gateway/firewall - lost its motherboard. Since i work from home, this was especially tragic. i rushed out and got a cheap PC to replace it - paid only 370 Euros for a box with an AMD Sempron 2800, 1GB of RAM, 80GB HDD, DVD writer, Realtek NIC, and an on-board ATI Radeon. When i got it home, i immediately put my old hard drives in it and found that i couldn't boot from my old installation. Not a big deal - i simply reinstalled Suse 10.1. Getting the Radeon to work right was a PITA, but other than that, no problems. Now... i would LIKE to do some software updates on this box, but i'm not about to start with the headaches i had before with 10.1's updater tools, and therefor i have a simple stock 10.1 installation. i know this has been asked, answered, discussed and cussed many times on this list, and that "the answer" to my question is somewhere in the archives, buried amongst a dozen or more hyperlinks, but... What i would like to ask is: what is THE best, most up-to-date, most accurate HOWTO/doc for replacing the 10.1 update tools with "something else." My main criteria is that i should be able to use Suse repositories for updates (including 3rd-party repos like packman). All i'm looking for is "the single best" link. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. :) -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts