Re: AW: [SLE] Yast 2 SUCKS !!!
At 5:14 PM +0200 7/29/02, Nick Selby wrote:
Where was it?
I never did find one. The only thing under Network was NFS. belch. -- http://www.4am-media.com Mac OS X Consulting and Training Michael Bartosh mbartosh@4am-media.com 303.517.0272 Denver, CO "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." - -- Nietzsche Think Different.
On Monday 29 July 2002 19.16, Michael Bartosh wrote:
At 5:14 PM +0200 7/29/02, Nick Selby wrote:
Where was it?
I never did find one. The only thing under Network was NFS.
There is no ftp in the version on the CD/dvd. When the announcement of the ftp version was made it was also stated that you had to use the boot disk from suse's ftp server. Either the boot floppies or the boot.iso located there. There is also an excellent readme describing how to do the install either from suse's ftp, one of the mirrors or from your own local lan if you mirror the installation directory. SuSE's knowledgebase also has a description on how to perform network installs. //Anders
With prior releases, I was in the habit of installing from CD, but then changing source of installation to FTP, to make sure I was pulling the latest update, whenever I went to install additional packages. Since the FTP version of 8.0 was published, I have been expecting that YOU will replace my YAST2 with an FTP-capable one. To date, this hasn't happened. has anyone figured out which of the myriad of yast2 .rpm's contains the 'change source of installation' module, so I can manually update yast2 to restore my FTP installation ability? On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 29 July 2002 19.16, Michael Bartosh wrote:
At 5:14 PM +0200 7/29/02, Nick Selby wrote:
Where was it?
I never did find one. The only thing under Network was NFS.
There is no ftp in the version on the CD/dvd. When the announcement of the ftp version was made it was also stated that you had to use the boot disk from suse's ftp server. Either the boot floppies or the boot.iso located there.
There is also an excellent readme describing how to do the install either from suse's ftp, one of the mirrors or from your own local lan if you mirror the installation directory.
SuSE's knowledgebase also has a description on how to perform network installs.
//Anders
-- Rick Green "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
I sent this a minute too soon. I just did another search of the SDB (keywords FTP INSTALL), and found a new article which describes the procedure. Unfortunately, the article directs me to download ALL the rpm's in both the yast1 and yast2 directories, and then let rpm update only those which are already installed. I've got a slow modem connection, and it pains me to think of spending time downloading something that won't be installed. I've tried several times, but haven't been able to come up with a working rpm command line which will update any/all packages found in a FTP directory, so that the process could be done with just two commands. Has anyone else figured out this one? On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Rick Green wrote:
With prior releases, I was in the habit of installing from CD, but then changing source of installation to FTP, to make sure I was pulling the latest update, whenever I went to install additional packages. Since the FTP version of 8.0 was published, I have been expecting that YOU will replace my YAST2 with an FTP-capable one. To date, this hasn't happened.
has anyone figured out which of the myriad of yast2 .rpm's contains the 'change source of installation' module, so I can manually update yast2 to restore my FTP installation ability?
-- Rick Green "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:55:41 -0400 (EDT)
Rick Green
I've tried several times, but haven't been able to come up with a working rpm command line which will update any/all packages found in a FTP directory, so that the process could be done with just two commands. Has anyone else figured out this one?
Rick, I use apt and apt4rpm, with synaptic. This allows you to select the RPMs you wish to update. I select "Installed" form the RPM list, select the ones to upgrade, and away it goes. There was a thread on apt a few months ago. This may solve your problem. HTH. Terence
On Monday 29 July 2002 17:30, Rick Green wrote:
With prior releases, I was in the habit of installing from CD, but then changing source of installation to FTP, to make sure I was pulling the latest update, whenever I went to install additional packages. Since the FTP version of 8.0 was published, I have been expecting that YOU will replace my YAST2 with an FTP-capable one. To date, this hasn't happened.
has anyone figured out which of the myriad of yast2 .rpm's contains the 'change source of installation' module, so I can manually update yast2 to restore my FTP installation ability?
Wouldn't be nice to visit our mothers from time to time? I mean, we have SuSE 8.0 from SuSE. We should visit them more often, at least the SuSE Support Database section ;) If you go to www.suse.com and select Support Database on the left, then History - Recent changes, you will see on 16th of July (2 weeks ago) the following article: Adding FTP to YaST2 as Installation Source For your convenience, here is the link: http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/yast2_ftp80.html Have fun, Dan. -- Binaries might die, but source code lives forever
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