Hi, This time I selected to upgrade my SuSE 8.1 to 8.2 using FTP. I alredy bought a few SuSE packages since 6.3. Next time I will buy it again, SuSE ;-). Anyway, I would like to thank SuSE a lot to made its distribution available. If anybody have some machines to upgrade, and a relative slow Internet conection, I think the best choice is to download the SuSE tree (excluding source rpms) to our local network FTP server and then update at 10/100 Mbps . The script used to download the tree is as follows (be careful with splitted lines in your mail editor, 'wget .... /8.2/*' has to be in a single line): ------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh # This is to download SuSE 8.2 FTP version # # Uncomment only one line, depending on your mirror choice # Usage: # 1) put the script in the directory where you want to place the SuSE tree # 2) exec the script # get_suse82 # 3) The SuSE tree will be placed in 'i386/8.2/...' directory. # # NOTE, you can interrupt. Next time It will begin where it left the work. # _BE_PATIENT_, it has to download about 3.6 Gbytes. # # Thanks to SuSE to make available this superb release. # wget -t 0 -m -nH -c --cut-dirs=4 -R "*.src.rpm" ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/8.2/* # wget -t 0 -m -nH -c --cut-dirs=5 -R "*.src.rpm" ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/suse/suse/i386/8.2/* # wget -t 0 -m -nH -c --cut-dirs=6 -R "*.src.rpm" ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/8.2/* # wget -t 0 -m -nH -c --cut-dirs=2 -R "*.src.rpm" ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/ftp.suse.com/i386/8.2/* ---------------------------------------- You can better download the script here ftp://ftp.oxixares.com/pub/suse/get_suse82 Note that you should download the tree to a directory you can access by FTP HINT: I have vsftpd as FTP server. If you also have this server be sure that the you have commented in file '/etc/vsftpd.conf' the line #connect_from_port_20=YES for some unknown reason, uncommenting it will not permit to upgrade (it will stop in the phase of reading available packages). It took me a lot of time to discover it, because the original vsftpd.conf has this line uncommented. Once you've completed the download you should burn a CD with the iso image i386/8.2/boot/boot.iso. Well, you now can start to upgrade bootstarting with the boot CD. And following the helps and docs ... Have a funny day! Guillermo. -- Guillermo Ballester Valor gbv@oxixares.com Ogijares, Granada SPAIN