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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Where are system update instructions? Need to
From:       Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3 () bout-tyme ! net>
Date:       2006-12-16 17:05:11
Message-ID: 1166288711.28163.4.camel () pc5 ! bout-tyme ! net
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On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 18:26 +0200, HG wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Thanks for the tip. But...
> 

> In the mean time, I looked around SUSE help again. I did found a
> paragraph of the system update. It says: "Update the version of SUSE
> Linux installed on your system with 'System Update'. During operation,
> you can only update application software, not the base system." Don't
> those two contradict? First says, you use System Update to install the
> version of SUSE, but then next says, that it can not do that. Great.
> Then it goes on to say: "To update the base system, boot the computer
> from an installation medium, such as CD. When selecting the
> installation mode in YaST, select 'Update an Existing System'."  What
> is the point of "System Update" in YaST?
> 
> So it means that I need to boot from something. Now, I can boot from
> network and possibly from floppies. How do I boot from network and
> start SUSE installation? Should be quite easy as it's only a few
> clicks in Knoppix... I'm thinking that as I have the ISO image on the
> other server, there should be easy way to make the other server boot
> from net and just start on the installation (I think that's about how
> knoppix does it.).
> 
> Jdd, thanks for your tip also. I do not have any spare partitions
> where I could copy stuff (or keep 10.0 around) so I have to be able to
> boot from the net.
> 

Is there no way to temporarily add a CD/DVD reader just to install the
newer version? Even a USB external drive would do.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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