[Gllug] FTP downloaded SUSE 9.3 to hdd - won't install over nfs..

[M.Blackmore]

M.Blackmore wrote:
>Over the weekend I downloaded suse 9.3 of the ftp.gwdg.de mirror ...
>
>Unfortunately this won't install over nfs for an upgrade. I don't get
>the yast option "what sort of upgrade" or "repair", and when it grinds
>as far as the analysing systems page the software packages have no
>option available.
Solved - looked at a few mirrors and noticed a couple had a few more 
files in the "root" directory of suse 9.3, so to speak. Downloaded those 
and a couple of files which were of a different size and bingo, just 
installed suse 9.3 off the network via nfs.

Seems one cannot trust all the suse mirrors...

nfs over the net is impossibly slow. Just out of curiosity I tried it to 
a fast mirror, and after waiting for over 10 minutes simply to load the 
ramdisk hit the reset button on da box. Life is too short!
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