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

[Serge Marelli]

Hi,

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 10:19, Jay Christnach wrote:
> 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)

I'm not sure whether this is quite what you want, but if all you want is
to install/update packages, I believe YOU (Yast On-line Updater) could
be your friend?
Instead of trying to change the install source (I haven't tried that in
a long time), have you tried to simply use YOU? It's in the same
"window" as the "Change Source Of Installation" setting.

yrs
  Serge


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