Interesting situation here. I am running a proprietary machine manufactured around 2006 that is operated via a HP x86 workstation running SUSE SLES 10- no service pack.
The system is frozen in time and cannot be updated to any other version (eg 11,12 etc) without breaking it, and no replacement for the system exists.
I have software that needs to be installed but it will only work on Service Pack 4. You know where it’s going…
I tried everywhere to obtain service pack 1, 2, 3, 4 ISO but no luck. Anyone have the files? Sadly no luck through Novell, as the links are all removed. Internet archive has some of the files but most are missing.
Strange that they would send you here, as officially updates to SLE require a subscription, so the community probably legally couldn’t distribute them (though I don’t know if that’s the case or not - but the verbiage they gave you that they’re “unavailable for distribution under any circumstances” probably means that is the case). The SUSE community would probably be more assistance than the openSUSE community in that case.
I’ve put a question out to someone I know at SUSE who should be able to get a definitive answer. Will follow up when I have their feedback (they’re in Germany, so it may not be today).
Thanks for your patience - I was traveling last week.
I did a little research on this, and have had confirmation that the individual who told you the openSUSE community could help wasn’t considering SUSE’s redistribution policy. You would need to obtain the service pack from SUSE directly.
If you can DM me information about who you received the advice from, we can likely sort out a resolution - not looking to get anyone in trouble, but the information you received was incorrect.
I’m still looking for an answer as to where to properly obtain what you’re looking for.