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n00b question on SUSE 9.3

BigLar

Senior member
I'm trying to download the new 9.3 SUSE. Novell's mirror sites all describe it as a 4.3GB download, but when I try to get it, they all provide a 188MB iso file.

Novell's installation site

What am I doing wrong?😕

Any guidance would be appreciated.
 
You boot off the net install image and that will in turn d/l the rest of the 4GB+ stuff off the FTP mirrors.
 
The OP's original question: What is this 188MB? The iso is 4.3GB.

I had the same thing until I discovered that ALL the browsers I tried must only use 32bit arithmetic. So the ~188854KB you see is 4,383,158KB minus 4,194,304KB (4GB) modulo 4gig rollover. BTW, NONE of these browsers will download that 4 gig plus file successfully. That's Firefox, IE and Netscape 6.

So, I installed and tried the FlashGet downloader and it got the 4.3Gig file perfectly (did an MD5 check OK) . It is adware but no bid deal. I turned off all the install options that integrate it into the system and used its own built-in mini browser. Its a 1.6 MB and installs/uninstalls quickly.

BTW, the destination drive cannot be formatted FAT32 ( another 4 Gig limit ) use a drive formatted NTFS.
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If you're actually going to download the entire 4.3 gigs of the ISO image, be kind and use a torrent. That kind of transfer puts a huge strain on the servers hosting it.
 
Good detective stuff, Highwire.

I think I'm gonna wait for Novell's free discs to show up in the mail...
 
Sir, private n00b reporting for duty, sir!

OK, flashed the bios on an old Thinkpad 770ED to the most recent version, extracted the ISO file onto a DVD, and the machine will boot Linux (slowly), off the DVD.

But what I really want to do is eliminate the native OS (Win2000), wipe out whatever is on the HDD, and substitute SUSE 9.3. I don't see an option to do that. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

And while I'm asking, what is file "idm.tar.bz2"? As best as I can tell, its a compressed file, so I'm guessing its the system documentation. If so, what do I use to open/read it?

 
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