On Monday, March 07, 2005 1:34 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote --
Greg Wallace wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Carlos E. R. [mailto:robin1.listas@tiscali.es] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 10:55 AM To: SLE Subject: RE: [SLE] Problem with YOU
On Sunday, March 06 @ 2005 10:55 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote: -The Sunday 2005-03-06 at 01:34 +0100, I wrote: - -> I'd have to look at the ftp server to give you the specific path. -> - -I had a look, and I think you have to point it to:-
-ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/discontinued/ - -And, you probably will not find mirrors (my usual mirror does not have it, -I know).
--- -Cheers, - Carlos Robinson I tried that site and that exact path (that's the only one I tired), and that didn't work. I had used that server most of the time for my YOU processing. Maybe there's some additional software in place on the regular
The actual path you would need to use is <blahblah>/discontinued/<arch>/updates/<version>/
So, and here I'm drifting a bit, but not too much. When is SuSE going to get the equivalent of a Windows ASR backup? I lost my Windows machine at
Probably when someone who really wants/needs it, and could actually write such a thing, gets around to writing it. This is definitely one big area where Linux is way behind the competition, though the argument probably will be made that, with mass storage media so cheap now, RAID is within reach of everyone. I'll buy that argument the day that all mass storage devices are hot-pluggable (without having to pay high-end server prices to get it).
I tried ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE/discontinued/i386/update/8.1/patches and a few other paths in that same area and still couldn't get it to work. Thanks, Greg W