* Keith Winston;
A better approach would be to restore the patches, then start YOU, and let it install them for you. In this case, YOU should be smart enough to see that you already have the patches and not download them again, although it may always download the _list_ of available patches. This is the way I would try it first.
What I do is I mirror the update directory via rsync cron script and then use YaST2 -> Online Update -> manual and then Expert. choose hardisk the trick is to write the directory structure upto the point i386 so I have my mirrored software /usr/local/update -----> i386/update/8.0 -----> i386/update/7.3 hence writing /usr/local/update is sufficient. YOU finds the remaining. this way I can also do local ftp for my other machines More info can be found /usr/share/doc/packages/yast2-config-online-update/y2c_online_update.html -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx