Upgrade openSUSE 10.2
Pinto, the Thinkpad T60 running openSUSE 10.2 gave me an error message when I tried to update it last week (or was it the week before?):
Cannot access installation media suse-oss102 CD 1. Check that the server is accessible.
I thought I told openSUSE to not use the CDs before. Turns out, I did. Although it wasn’t as easy as it should have been to figure out what happened, I did manage to find out that openSUSE 10.2 reached end-of-life on November 30, 2008 and the update servers were turned off. Why couldn’t they say that instead of “you don’t have your CDs.”
The current release of openSUSE is 11.1, so since the family is at the neighbors, it’s time for me to break things. >-)
I started with the openSUSE 11.1 installation DVD, downloaded via bittorrent. To print a cover for the slim CD case, I downloaded the CD art and printed it with these commands:
convert Front_back_th.png cd.eps
cdlabelgen --cover-image cd.eps \
--cover-image-scaleratio 1.1,0.0,0.0 \
--slim-case --no-date --output-file cd.ps
To check the output, run “ghostscript cd.ps”
To print, “lp cd.ps”
The download will take a while, so I’ll continue this post later