[Wolves] simply changed

[gary at walsall.uk.com]

Please ignore the last message, those instructions are for 8.2, I don't think they work with 9.0


If you want to create a patch CD take a look at 
http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/articles/you.html

Hope this helps.

Gary




gary at walsall.uk.com wrote ..
> Hi nux,
> I use SuSE 8.2 and 9.0. originally started with FreeBSD and then moved
> over to SuSE 6 many moons ago. 
> 
> I would download all the patches from ftp.suse.com and dump them in a directory
> or onto cd. You can then tell 'yast' to update from the directory that
> your updates are in.
> 
> I have never tried a TV card on my pc ?
> 
> 
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> nux at blueyonder.co.uk wrote ..
> > Greetings All,
> > 
> > Have changed my distro to SuSE 9.0 (personal).
> > Initial results seem quite encouraging.
> > It only took me half a day to get dvd support working and another half
> > a day to figure out why slocate and consequently the updatedb command
> were
> > missing. (they actually are missing - amazing - Linux without locate
> is
> > like a book without an index). Although, it took some trawling to find
> > out that SuSE calls slocate by another name, findutils-locate. Not that
> > that information is available on the SuSE site.
> > 
> > Still wont recognise my bloody tv card though.
> > 
> > Arrrggghhhhhh!
> > 
> > Does anyone esle use SuSE?
> > 
> > And does anyone know where on the system YaST puts downloaded patches?
> > I want to copy them to cd to avoid another 70MB download in the future.
> > 
> > many thanks
> > 
> > happy new year to you all
> > 
> > nux
> > 
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