On Thursday 29 April 2004 05.09, Craig Ambrose wrote:
On Thursday 29 April 2004 12:28 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
Things like that are never ever published through YOU, whether it's possible or not. But you most certainly don't need the CDs, it is quite possible to do a network install from ftp or nfs, when the files become available.
What you would do is add the directory on the ftp or nfs server as an installation source in yast, enable it, and disable the old installation source. Then select "System update" in yast, let it run, then after one single reboot you're good to go with the new version.
I'd really love to do this, and I've had a stab at it, but I must admit that I couldn't figure out what directory on the SuSE ftp server to use as the "New Installation Source".
Don't use suse's ftp server. It is constantly overloaded, and not the place you'd want to download gigabytes of data from
I'm still just using my cd's as my only installation souce (although I have YOU working fine for online updates).
Would you be able to point me at a particular path? Or define what YaST's requirements are for such a path?
The path is just the fully qualified path to the distribution directory. For example, using the gwdg.de mirror (though you will want to find a mirror physically closer to you) ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/9.0 is the installation source for 9.0. In that directory there needs to be a certain structure, and a few files need to exist there aside from the packages themselves, but I'm a little hazy on the details, never having set one up manually Note that YaST has been inconsistent in its error messages, so if the ftp server you're connecting to answers "too many users right now, try again later", then yast may very well tell you that the path is bad