The Saturday 2004-04-10 at 13:58 -0700, Bryce Hardy wrote:
Just run "SuSEwatcher" and configure it by right-clicking. Ever since they uploaded a huge kernel update that I can't download over this dial-up connection I've had to remove it since it will always be RED no matter what until I DL it.
I have a trick for those big patches. First, I note the full path (or I get it manually), and then I create a little script, like this: wget --timeout=45 --waitretry=10 --continue "ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/suse_update/8.2/rpm/i586/kernel-source-2.4.20.SuSE-108.i586.rpm" wget --timeout=45 --waitretry=10 --continue "ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/suse_update/8.2/rpm/i586/k_deflt-2.4.20-108.i586.rpm" This script I run on every connection, for some time, while I download mail, browse a bit, etc, perhaps for half an hour. Then I stop it, and disconnect. After some days, I have it downloaded, and I move them to /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/8.2/rpm/i586/ and fire up YOU again: it will happily pick it up, and I don't need to be connected for hours on a single connection. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson