Re: insufficient space to complete yast update

DaBear75 wrote:

I'm trying to use yast online update to install all the critical
updates to openlinux 10.2. However, there are so many there is not
enough free space to download all of them, so the entire update fails.
I have attempted to select specific packages and only update a few at
a time, but there always seem to be a lot of dependencies that make
the update larger.

I have room in another file system that I could put the downloaded
packages. What directory does yast store its download packages? could
I possibly move that directory to another file system and symlink that
into the original location?

Sources are mounted in /var/adm/ as subdirectory.
Symlinking works within one partition. To add another partition you should
use mount. For instance:
mount /dev/hda10 /var/adm
or
mount -t auto /dev/hda10 /var/adm

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Regards,
Rajko.
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