-pj composed on 2024-03-26 23:27 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata wrote:
-pj composed on 2024-03-26 18:56 (UTC-0500):
Hi, I have an HP-Mini-311 32 bit laptop with openSUSE Tumbleweed installed. The machine has not been started for over a year. Today I started the machine.
zypper --download-only
Results in many many problems.
Highly likely you didn't give a thought to updating your repo URLs. TW switched from a regular release to a port, so all its standard repos acquired a new root URL quite a while back: http://download.opensuse.org/ports/i586/tumbleweed/
What you might want to consider for something so old is an offline upgrade. It can be as simple as fetching https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/boot/x86_64/loader/initrd https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/boot/x86_64/loader/linux
I would like to try this for 32 bit though if possible.
and putting them on a local filesystem, then creating a bootloader stanza to load them.
Ok I like your idea can you enlighten me a bit more?
This is a redacted stanza for use with Grub Legacy: title Install openSUSE TW download.opensuse.org kernel (hd0,2)/stw/linux showopts install=http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/tumbleweed/repo/oss hostname=myhost ifcfg=*="hostIP/24,gatewayIP,8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4,mylocal.net" net.ifnames=0 ipv6.disable=1 noresume vga=791 video=1440x900@60 3 nomodeset kexec_reboot=0 BrokenModules=floppy lang=en keytable=us Upgrade=1 textmode=1 initrd (hd0,2)/stw/initrd For 32bit, linux and initrd come from: http://download.opensuse.org/ports/i586/tumbleweed/repo/oss/boot/i386/loader... I save them on a native filesystem on /dev/sda3.
The 32 bit NET installation is here -> https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tumbleweed_installation#LegacyX86_(i586)
Whenever possible, I download from mirrors, not web pages: http://download.opensuse.org/ports/i586/tumbleweed/iso/ -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata