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

[David Reed]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:47, M.Blackmore wrote:
> 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!

Could you let us know the specific mirror that worked ?

David Reed

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