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?):<\/p>\n
Cannot access installation media suse-oss102 CD 1. Check that the server is accessible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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<\/a> and the update servers were turned off. Why couldn’t they say that instead of “you don’t have your CDs.”<\/p>\n
The current release of openSUSE is 11.1<\/a>, so since the family is at the neighbors, it’s time for me to break things. >-)<\/p>\n
I started with the openSUSE 11.1 installation DVD<\/a>, downloaded via bittorrent. To print a cover for the slim CD case, I downloaded the CD art<\/a> and printed it with these commands:<\/p>\n
convert Front_back_th.png cd.eps
\ncdlabelgen --cover-image cd.eps \\
\n--cover-image-scaleratio 1.1,0.0,0.0 \\
\n--slim-case --no-date --output-file cd.ps<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\nTo check the output, run “ghostscript cd.ps”
\nTo print, “lp cd.ps”<\/p>\nThe download will take a while, so I’ll continue this post later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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