Hi all, My copy of 6.3 hit the porch late yesterday afternoon. So I spent some time upgrading. Everything was going fine until I hit CD #5. No go it couldn't be read. I got the red screen of death from yast and had to stop the upgrade. Well by this point the whole base system was upgraded so I figured no problem I'll just do an upgrade by FTP. Well there are allot of upgrades already on the FTP site 6.3.0.3 already-) No problem it's just keeps clicking along until it got to the kernel src. More red stuff. A cryptic error message that made no real sense. Something like file couldn't be read. I didn't know if it couldn't read the file from the FTP site or my disk. I finally figured out it didn't like something on my end. Plenty of room on /usr where the kernel src would go. So I figured maybe it was a problem with some sort of conflict with the old src in /usr/src/linux so I rm that. No go of course. Well I don't really need the src from suse so I went into package selection and deleted it. Restarted things and everything clipped along for awhile until I hit one of the java packages. Yup a big file. Same sort of problems. At this point I figured out the problem wasn't disk space on /usr but /var. Okay now to find where all the diskspace went. /var/log was fine. /var/spool is a separate disk forget partition. Well buried in /var/adm/backup/rpmdb were a bunch of old files that looked to be leftover from past upgrades. Big files using up a bunch of space. Well I wasn't sure what the files were for but since they were all dated they looked old and I deleted the oldest. Viola things now worded fine. From here on in things went fairly okay. Now time to start sax and see how it's been improved. Ooops sax doesn't start. The guess it makes about my video card is wrong and causes it to fail. No problem I using the cmd line switch to set the right card. It starts up fine and my new monitor is in the database. But the settings are actually a little more conservative then actual. Not a problem IMHO. Better safe then sorry. So when I go and check the setup everything looks great. But [you knew there would be a but] the monitor is being pushed at a higher refresh rate then it should-( Any one know the simplest way to change that. In addition I thought somebody had said Sax now can read the plug and play info from the monitor? Sax was able to probe my video card fine but couldn't get any info from the monitor. In my search for what happened to all my disk space I noticed that / was at 100%. OOOPS. Well I couldn't figure it out so I started just looking around /root had a massive du report. It looked like the last time windows had crashed it wrote a bunch of files to /root/.kde/share Most of the files were empty but still more proof of the dangers of using Windows even to play a video game. So all in all outside of the bad CD most things went okay. Better error messages would help though-) So how do I get a replacement CD? Nick -- -------------------------------------------------- Nick Zentena "Microsoft has unjustifiably jeopardized the stability and security of the operating system." U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Nov 5/1999 -------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/