> Hi Reg, I struggled with getting this working too.  Without being able
> to tell you reasons why (I just know they work for me), I have these
> yast installation sources set up (in addition to DVD etc):

Packman and Guru are the two big 3rdparty repositories. So these two

> http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/packman/suse/10.2/
> http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.2

are Packman and are the same (unless one of them is incomplete), and

> ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.2

that's Guru. Packages are increasingly being shifted into the
buildservice though, except for those which can't be commercially
distributed. Good information about all those repositories can be found
by following the link I posted earlier.

Btw if you have a LAN with more than one computer, setting up SLP is
really cool. It basically works the same as DHCP, but instead of sending
a broadcast "give me an IP address" it's "give me installation sources".
In yast select SLP instead of URL as new source to add. If you copy the
install DVD onto a harddisk, mount it, serve it with vsftpd, and list it
with the SLP server, you can install any box on the LAN by booting the
first CD/DVD/netinstall ISO and selecting SLP as installation source. I
wouldn't run an installfest without it.

Volker

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