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SuSE 8.2

There are no ISO images for free, If you want to install completely off of a CD you have to buy it.

However SuSE gave you the option of a FTP install.

The reason they do it is for logistic reasons. It's much more expensive in server space/bandwith to have just packages and cd images aviable, so they choose just to have the packages. The ftp install CD just pretty much pretends the ftp server is realy your packages on the CD.

edit: also, before if forget, if you do choose to install over ftp, be sure to pick a mirror close to you. SuSE itself is based out of Germany, so installing off of the main ftp site may be pretty slow.
 
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Might be useful.

Btw, drag, I DID install SUSE (I think thats the way the want to be known these days.. ) from the ftp site in Germany once. It was pretty fast. I was on my school's network, it was Friday night (almost 2 AM), etc, etc....
 
Btw, I DID install SUSE (I think thats the way the want to be known these days.. ) from the ftp site in Germany once. It was pretty fast. I was on my school's network, it was Friday night (almost 2 AM), etc, etc....
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Doesn't the FTP install give you less options (read:"stuff") than the CD's do? I have 8.0 personal now and would like to give 8.2 a go. BTW, how does one go about making the necessary boot floppy to do the FTP install?
 
originally posted by:GonzoDaGr8Doesn't the FTP install give you less options (read:"stuff") than the CD's do? I have 8.0 personal now and would like to give 8.2 a go. BTW, how does one go about making the necessary boot floppy to do the FTP install?
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I dont particularly remember what packages I installed. That was quite a while ago.
To make a boot floppy (from the SUSE site)
booting from floppy

Download the floppy disk image boot/bootdisk as well as the module disk
image files you need (at least boot/modules1 and likely the network
modules from boot/modules3).

Write the images to floppy disks using the 'dd' command:

dd if=[path_to_image] of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b

On non-linux systems, use the rawrite utility from the dosutils/rawrite
directory (rawrite.exe).
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