In this case the upgrade process script is calling YaST2 
Perhaps because we chose the ssh method rather than vnc in original parm
file

I have used YaST2 for a few years and do like it
It was nice and easy for doing hipersockets though yast maybe is as well

vnc method may have required installing a product in my vmware

Open source not allowed and only certain approved products allowed

PuTTY is allowed so opted to try ssh method (silly us)

Don't know why the install process is invoking YaST2 rather than yast

Annie Smith 

-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Mark Post
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 5:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP2 upgrade issue

>>> On 3/7/2013 at 04:29 PM, "Veencamp, Jonathon D."
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm curious, why do you NEED X to do maint?  I do all our manual 
> maintenance in Yast2 via Putty.  There are a few things you can't do 
> in non-graphical (like mark a patch taboo), but otherwise it's almost
all there.

As you yourself noted, it's not necessary.  But, some people like the
GUI versus the ncurses interface.  Since my network connections to our
mainframe are transatlantic, I prefer ncurses, simply because trying to
use X (or even VNC at times) is excruciating.


Mark Post

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