Good day Anders and Michael,
The simple solution is:
Mirror the i386 directory (and everything below it) from your internet SuSE mirror.
If you have a fast connection between your linux machine and your download machine, then use the Patch CD Update to update by pointing it to the directory containing the i386 directory on your download machine.
If you have no connection between the machines, copy the i386 directory to the root of a CD and use that with the Patch CD Update.
are you certain about everything beneth i386? Shouldn't it be everything beneth: ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/ ??
Yes, I am certain. The great Togan Muftuoglu pointed a bunch of us to a HOWTO about how to do local YOU updates.
Togan is indeed great, but his HOWTO does *not* say you should mirror everything below the i386 directory. If you do you'll get all the updates for all the currently supported SuSE versions.
Get the files from the 8.1 directory, but store them in a directory structure that looks like i386/update/8.1 That's what Togan's HOWTO says
Yes. Thank you anders. Sorry. I forgot that important detail. The i386 directory path is important, but one needs only mirror all of the update parts of the path on the mirror server. That is: i386/update/8.1/patches/ i386/update/8.1/rpm/ (everything under here) i386/update/8.1/scripts/ Keep the same structure making sure the "top" directory is 'i386'. *Slap*! (<- Johnny takes his punishment ;o)) Best regards :o) Johnny :o)