Software and Firmware repositories broken with openSUSE 10.3?

[Tino Schwarze]

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 10:59:19PM +0100, Kevin Davidson wrote:

> >I've just installed a fresh SuSE 10.3 on a PE1850. I added the OMSA
> >repositories manually since 10.3 is not supported officially, yet.
> 
> How did you do that?
> 
> I've tried a couple of times on both 10.2 and 10.3 and just got  
> horribly lost in the twisty maze of repositories. Just hacking at the  
> bootstrap script and lying that I have SLES 10 doesn't work either.

I didn't bother to use the bootstrap.cgi at all. You only need two
repositories for OMSA:
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/platform_independent/suse10_64/
and
http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/pe1950/suse10_64/
(replace pe1950 by the model of your server - just start a browser and
look into the latest/ directory to find the correct name).

Only the firmware repositories are not working because of the issue with
"other_db" not being supported by 10.3... :-(
In theory, you'd add http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/cross-distro/
and IIRC the suitable /repo/software repository. Then you install
libsmbios from Dell, srvadmin-base etc. using YaST.

HTH,

Tino.

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