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

[Brent Frère]

Eric Dondelinger a écrit :

>Hi,
>
>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.
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This is right.

> 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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This is right.

>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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Sorry ? I though we were speaking about an already running Suse 8.1 
system. Why should it reboot to install some suplementary software ?

>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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The guy told -if I'm not wrong- that he whished to add some packages to 
a Suse 8.1 system. Not update to Suse 9.0.

>Greets, Eric
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My experience was
* I had a friend running a Suse 8.1 system connected to the Internet
* I needed to re-install some packages, but I had a slow Internet 
connection, and he didn't had the proper CD.
* I tried to find some Suse 8.1 server on the web to re-install those 
packages without having to upload it to his system from mine (too slow). 
I didn't found ANY ftp server proposing Suse 8.1 packages, and the ISO 
images hosted by Suse didn't solved the problem neither (I don't 
remember exactly why). I found however a text explaining why those 
packages were removed from some ftp sites: because of Suse licence term. 
So, I just tell my experience: to install some Suse 8.1 packages on a 
system that has been installed using the commercial CDs, not the FTP ISO 
images, you should fetch some Suse 8.1 CDs. I have such if you want. If 
you have no access to the computer involved (quite risky, but...), then 
you should share those ISO images on a file server having a fast 
connection to the Internet.

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