[KLUG Members] New SuSE installation

[Mike Williams]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:00:01 -0400, 
members-request@kalamazoolinux.org wrote:
>> I have an old (sortof) installation of SuSE 7.1 that I use a house 
server.
>>I would like to update everything, which YAST2 (the config / update
>>tool) won't do except as individual packages.  I have downloaded an 
ISO
>>of the boot disk for SuSE 8.0, which will supposedly boot then get 
the
>>remaining files from an FTP server, but this doesn't work. 
Networking
>>starts, but it can't connect to the FTP server even though TCP/IP
>>settings are correct.
>
>Can't help much there without more specifics.  Can you capture 
traffic
>from another box with something like ethereal and see if it is even
>trying, etc....

------------begin tcpdump----------------
Here's a complete tcpdump from one of the failed attempts.  Looks to 
me like it's making some kind of attempt, but I can't decipher much 
more than that.

16:05:37.301854 10.0.0.14.1026 > ftp.suse.com.ftp: S [ECN-Echo,CWR] 
4245204564:4
16:05:40.301358 10.0.0.14.1026 > ftp.suse.com.ftp: S [ECN-Echo,CWR] 
4245204564:4
16:05:42.301382 arp who-has router.local tell 10.0.0.14
16:05:42.304541 arp reply router.local is-at 0:a0:c5:e0:45:d 
(0:a0:c9:8d:4a:1e)
16:05:46.301549 10.0.0.14.1026 > ftp.suse.com.ftp: S [ECN-Echo,CWR] 
4245204564:4
16:05:58.301964 10.0.0.14.1026 > ftp.suse.com.ftp: S [ECN-Echo,CWR] 
4245204564:4
16:06:22.302763 10.0.0.14.1026 > ftp.suse.com.ftp: S [ECN-Echo,CWR] 
4245204564:4
16:07:10.304395 10.0.0.14.1026 > ftp.suse.com.ftp: S [ECN-Echo,CWR] 
4245204564:4
16:07:15.304523 arp who-has router.local tell 10.0.0.14
16:07:15.307204 arp reply router.local is-at 0:a0:c5:e0:45:d 
(0:a0:c9:8d:4a:1e)
-------------end tcpdump-------- sorry about the ugly formatting

>>I've also considered converting to Redhat since it seems to do a 
better job
>> of updating an existing installation.

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>>I have 3 CD's of Redhat 7.3,
>>but seem to be running into partition table problems.  (This is on 
a
>>different machine so I don't kill a production box.)  On most 
attempts
>>it takes 10 minutes or so for each partitioning operation (even
>>opening the FDISK screen), and at the end it gives a critical 
failure
>
>Can you post the exact message?

Well, while trying to collect error messages I got it to work.  
Default install failed with the helpful message "Could not allocate 
partitions", but Disk Druid seems to be managing.  Looks like the 
gremlins ran when they saw I was taking notes.

-- 
Mike Williams, knightperson@zuzax.com on 07/17/2002