So, I tried last week to update to 12.2. Downloaded the iso, went to install it, and found my dvd drive dead. So, I decide to try the online upgrade route, since someone else said it worked for him. Looked good until I rebooted; it comes up to a command line. Go to root, startx, can't find the kde4 init, or some such. Try zypper from the command line; total failure. Look at the repositories; all except update set for 12.1. Update is at 12.2. I guess that's where the upgrade went wrong? Delete all the old ones except 12.2 update; now get hundreds of dependency failures. Now I try putting the iso onto a flash drive. All 3 Windows utilities I tried say you have to format the flash drive before running it (unetbootin-windows-581.exe, LiveUSB Creator, yumi). Unetbootin says it succeeded (after about 5 minutes in the "decompressing the iso" field). I reboot, get only a curses-style splash screen. Reboot to xp, look at the drive, only 4 files: menu.c32, syslinux.cfg, ubnfilel.txt, ubnpathl.txt, The last two are zero-length files. The first two are binaries. yumi at least says it can't continue after a quick look at the drive. No error message, no log I can find. Only LiveUSB gives an error message, which says (incorrectly) that it has written detailed error information into my "documents and settings\local\temp\" directory. Which doesn't exist. After a while I find a "liveusb-creator.exe.log" file in the installation directory (!). The entire log message: [creator:948] Unable to get GetVolumeInformation(A:): (21, 'GetVolumeInformation', 'The device is not ready.') There is no drive A:, if that's what it means. I can read and write to and from the drive using Notepad++; I can get directory information using Windows Explorer. Clearly the drive is ready for other programs. It's an 8G Geek Squad drive formatted per the instructions of yumi for fat32. I assume the others can handle fat32? So, for anyone who's gotten this far: what can I do now? short of buying a new dvd drive, which I'll eventually do anyhow, but I really wanted to expand my knowledge and options. And not to wait until I get out to buy the dvd to get 12.2. John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org