** Reply to message from Per Jessen on Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:26:10 +0100

Suggestion - download the whole FTP-version (use wget), then run the update process with the distro NFS mounted.

/Per Jessen, Zürich

Another comment. I burned the boot.iso and when it asked for the installation source, I pointed it to / of the partition containing the 9.2 distro. Everything went normally, starting YaST, etc. When I clicked "Accept", I got an error stating that the target, /dev/hda5, could not be mounted. I went to a console and did a df, only to find that all partitions in /dev/hda5/etc/fstab had already been mounted. So, I guess that it follows that it could not be mounted because it already had been (at /mnt in the installation). Will this still be a problem with an NFS mount? Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.9-vanilla PolarBar Mailer 1.25a

Hi! On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:26:10 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:

Hugo wrote:

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I'm trying to update this to 9.2 using the Yast System Update. I thought it would go like: add the FTP source with Yast Change Source of Installation and then go to System Update. But no. Different things happen:

Suggestion - download the whole FTP-version (use wget), then run the update process with the distro NFS mounted.

No room (old computer, small HD). I was able to get it (by juggling the FTP installation sources on and off and changing their order) to start update. But it didn't go as planned. For 4 hours it did download a lot of stuff and install it. After that I rebooted and was greeted with the new Novel splash. But after that... no X! Only command line :-( Now I'm stuck there. I even tried to update (from text yast) the system to minimum 9.2 system with KDE. Again some installation happened. But still, the X doesn't start. 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 windows versions... I guess I should have known this. (Although, with SuSE one has to update always as the older versions are not supported - one point where MS is still ahead.) I'll try to get the CD some time next week. Before that I'm stuck with Win2K (dual boot). -- HG

Hi! On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:38:55 -0500, Ed Harrison wrote:

** Reply to message from Hugo on Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:54:42 +0200

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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

Carlos E. R. wrote:

I understand (I don't have the bandwidth myself) that you need to download a small boot ISO image, burn it to a CD, and then install/update with ftp as source.

Or do what I did: This is what I downloaded: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/9.2/boot/loader/initrd ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/9.2/boot/loader/linux I renamed them and placed them in an existing SuSE 9.1 Linux /boot: initrd-suse9.2-install-rd linux-suse9.2-install-kernel Then I added to /boot/grub/menu.lst: title Install SuSE 9.2 kernel (hd0,4)/linux-suse9.2-install-kernel ramdisk_size=65536 splash=silent showopts initrd (hd0,4)/initrd-suse9.2-install-rd That's all I had to do before actually beginning installation, which I began with an otherwise normal boot, but by selecting the installation option instead of a normal boot. Once begun, it was an otherwise totally normal FTP install as described on http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/9052 and elsewhere. I did mine on Monday, when all the servers were grossly overloaded from the fresh release. It took really long, but shouldn't be so bad by now, and much quicker than downloading a dvd iso. -- "The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God." 1 Corinthians 1:18 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/