Re: [Lilux-help] suse8.1 yast and ftp help needed

sorry, I didn't reply to the newsgroup but only to the people who were kindly wanting to help. so here is an abstract for everybody to read: -the problem is not to install the distribution but to install packages -distribution is suse 8.1 pro -discovered a menu in yast where one can change installation source to ftp -but this doesn't work because * maybe yast is missing some module for ftp to work * or I have given a wrong URL (directory on ftp server) - because we don't want to bother the isp to get physical acces to the server we want to install packages via ftp. rpm -i is ok but if many dependencies rather tedious work So if anyone knows what I have to do to yast so that it pulls packages via ftp and install them, this would be very nice. (I would rather like to have a debian on the machine, because I'm used to it, but that's a different story) Thanks!