[Wolves] simply changed

[nux at blueyonder.co.uk]

It occured to me to do a locate for rpm's, and the yast cache came up in the results.
Will look into making a patch cd.
Thankyou for the link.

nux

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:45:05 GMT
gary at walsall.uk.com wrote:

> 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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