Hi! On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:38:55 -0500, Ed Harrison <eharrison@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
** Reply to message from Hugo <hg.list@gmail.com> on Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:54:42 +0200
I am that much Linux newbie that only thing left for me is to download the ISO for the CD1 at another computer and then do a clean installation of that. It was never a good option to try to update
When you get the command prompt, login as root.
Try "init 5", and X will start and go to either kdm or gdm, whichever one you have set up.
Thanks! But I never got that far. I started Yast2 from the comman line. After a little poking around the installation sources and such (actually I tried to do the update many times here... it always seemed like it had not happened) I remembered SaX! Tried to activate it, but then I got message saying that I still am lacking the Xorg stuff and off it went to install them. Boot and X was up again. :-) But the system was not updated apparently - at least it still said 9.1 everywhere. I then burned the mini image on CD. Booted with that. Started installation and entered update (when it asked). I again selected the Basic setup with KDE, but didn't touch the selections otherwise. Again there was more than 600 packages affected and the size of the download was more than 2Gb. After that, most things seemed OK. The command prompt login says 9.2 but the graphical login still says 9.1. But I think the update somewhat worked this time. Looking at YOU is a bit confusing as it has lot's of red updates there with the same version number as the installed ones. They are not selected automatically though. BTW, the automatic update doesn't seem to work... most of my machines (at home and work) tell me that they are unable to check for the updates... is this the new Novell SuSE? So I guess one should not try to update the system from the GUI of Yast2 - even though it seems possible - but to burn the first CD and boot from there. -- HG