On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, JeepNut just had to get this off his chest:

Having vers. 8.0 installed, and noticing that 8.2 is due soon, I thought it might be a good idea to look for updates to 8.0. Noticing 93! security updates I just started YaST and did the online update thing, but got several errors and the system seems pretty messed up now. Obviously I can still get online with Mozilla, but Views of folders are failing with errors, Find Files won't run, and on and on. So I think I'm pretty much screwed here. I've only been using for 6mo so I don't know much yet. Any advice? Should I just reinstall 8.0 entirely?

It is possible (from what you describe) that "only" your desktop manager (KDE or Gnome) fails. You could try to fire-up YaST in a console (Ctrl-Alt-F2..F8) as root, then remove all of the KDE/Gnome bits from software selection (write down what you do!), re-enter the Install/Remove software module, and re-install the removed bits.

If I wait for 8.2, should I UPDATE or get the full package and reinstall?

The update has all the software that the Pro version has, it just lacks the SuSE guide in dead-tree form and it doesn't include the same installation support period. The book you have with 8.0 basically covers everything in 8.2. That said; buying 8.2 does make it a lot easier to update than using YaST (which only give you security- and nasty bug updates, not new features in software). Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. SuSE 8.0 x86 Kernel k_Athlon 2.4.19-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.