[KLUG Members] OpenSuSe Patch CDs

[Bruce Smith]

> > > Anyone know if/where patch CD images for OpenSuSe are available?
> > 
> > No, but I know how to make them.
> > 
> > The only problem is after you get past 700MB of updates, it becomes a
> > patch DVD.  (I don't know how to selectively choose the updates)
>
> I imagine you want CDs to update multiple machines?

Patch CD's are like the "Online Updates" except it reads the updates
from a CD.  (nice for machines without Internet access) 

I suspect Adam's question is related to an email earlier today where he
couldn't get the network running on a laptop.  :-)

Currently, my update tree for 10.0 is about 3.5GB.  Too large for a CD,
but will fit on a DVD if the laptop has a DVD drive.  Otherwise you
could yank the HDD out of the laptop, install it elsewhere, copy the
update tree to it, reinstall the HDD and run updates from a dir. (yuck!)


As for my updates, personally I mirror the updates from a FTP server in
a nightly cron job and run my own internal FTP server to update all of
my machines.  That way the updates are only downloaded once.

I also copy my install CD to an ISO image on my hard drive and mount the
ISO image (loopback) in the FTP server's tree so all my machines can add
new software without accessing the internet too.  (I set the install
source to my FTP server).

 - BS