[Lilux-help] suse8.1 yast and ftp help needed

[Jay Christnach]

sorry, I didn't reply to the newsgroup but only to the people who were 
kindly wanting to help.

so here is an abstract for everybody to read:

-the problem is not to install the distribution but to install packages
-distribution is suse 8.1 pro
-discovered a menu in yast where one can change installation source to ftp
-but this doesn't work because
    * maybe yast is missing some module for ftp to work
    * or I have given a wrong URL (directory on ftp server)
- because we don't want to bother the isp to get physical acces to the 
server we want to install packages via ftp. rpm -i is ok but if many 
dependencies rather tedious work

So if anyone knows what I have to do to yast so that it pulls packages 
via ftp and install them, this would be very nice.

(I would rather like to have a debian on the machine, because I'm used 
to it, but that's a different story)

Thanks!


Eric Dondelinger wrote:

>Hi,
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>On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Brent Frère wrote:
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>>If you are looking for a way to remotely install Suse distribution, I
>>confirm that (after long researchs) there is no such ressource on the
>>web, because it is forbidden by the terms of the licence of some
>>softwares contained in the CDs. No problem to use YOU (YaST On-line
>>Update), but no ways to install Suse from the web. Sorry.
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>That's incorrect. You won't get ISOs (at least of the x86 distribution)
>because some software there is non-free. You *can* install via FTP,
>without those parts - the free packages are all available on the
>SUSE FTP server. There will be less problems for this in the future,
>as Novell has decided to GPL yast - of course problems remain for
>the proprietary third-party software included with the CDs/DVD.
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>Of course you'll need to boot from floppy and fetch the packages
>from the network, which isn't too practical if you're on analog
>or ISDN.
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>Note that you *can* download ISOs for some other architectures
>(like Sparc, Alpha) - probably those proprietary packages are not
>even available for those platforms.
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>>You should instead try to find a set of Suse8.1 CDs.
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>No, find a set of SuSE 9.0 (or soon 9.1) CDs/DVDs ;-)
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>Greets, Eric
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