Howto: Adding Ftp-sources To Suse 9.3

Title: Adding FTP-Sources to SuSE 9.3
Description: Instructions, and list of sources

http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de/wikka.php?...SourcestoSuSE93

Post any comments / questions / etc. in here.

ftp.suse.com
/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/GNOME/update_for_9.1/yast-source/
((this is the official GNOME spot))

Why i can't add the 9.2 or 9.3 official gnome spot to my YaST ??

Originally posted by n0gabor@Jun 24 2005, 07:45 PM
Why i can't add the 9.2 or 9.3 official gnome spot to my YaST ??

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Exactly!!

I cant update my beagle!

****! Sorry everyone, can someone change that 9.1 to 9.3, I suck I know.
Mods, users can't edit their own submissions?

So does this work for 9.3 ???
i followed the how to and it's taking for ever to add one


:edit:
never mind ... I just tried a different one and it works...
are some of the links down/dead?

:beer:

Just the first one doesnt seem to work...errors out

I just added packman guru , i didn't even know this is possible in Yast .

Thanks a lot for helping newbies, this forum is a great help once again.

FTP-Sources list
ftp.ale.org
/pub/suse/i386/9.3
(( this is a cool one where I got my dependancies for Bittornado))

ftp.suse.com
/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.3/yast-source/
((this is the official KDE spot))

ftp.suse.com
/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/GNOME/update_for_9.1/yast-source/
((this is the official GNOME spot))

ftp.suse.com
/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/misc/update_for_9.3/yast-source/
((this is the official MISC spot))

packman.iu-bremen.de
/suse/9.3/
((this is the Packman site everyone refers to))

ftp.gwdg.de
/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/9.3/
((this is the 'Guru' site))


**WARNING** This is for 64bit processors only!!!
ftp.suse.com
/pub/suse/x86_64/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.3/yast-source/
((this is for x86_64 stuff only))

Sources:
them thar SuSE forums

Yet another newbie question, that one hopes the experts can help with.

I have followed the HOWTO on getting my system to update via ftp. in Yast
However when I try to enter a server mirror address I get an adding message and then a return of -
Unable to create Installation source from URL "ftp....... three differnet sites
ERROR (InstScr:E_no_instsrc_on_media)
Try Again.
I unable to go further at this point other than to retry or close.
Can anyone point me in the correct direction?

Installation source from URL "ftp....... three differnet sites
ERROR (InstScr:E_no_instsrc_on_media)
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Very often through putting a slash in where YaST inserts one automatically so you end up with two together.

The incorrectly generated url looks like ftp.blah.com//pub/suse/9.3 instead of ftp.blah.com/pub/suse/9.3

Regards

Eds