[CLUE-Tech] SuSE network install

[Mike Miller (earthlink)]

I've done it several times. the secret is:

0. reasonable bandwidth
1.  Go to suse.com and find a reasonably fast local mirror to you.

e.g. mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse is one of the mirrors:

2. find the IP address of the site you're using 
(mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse would use 140.221.9.6 )
3. add the base of the SuSE installation to the folder list (/pub/suse 
would be: /pub/suse/i386/8.2 )

When it starts the download, go away for awhile.  :) come back, answer 
questions and go away for even longer.

I ended up buying a copy as $75 for the pro edition was cheap vs. the 
time waiting to get the software the hard way. The fact it came with 
two copies of the distro (5 CD's and 2 DVDs) and a pretty good newbie 
reference was iceing.

I moved from RH 8 to RH 9 to SuSE 8.2 about a year ago and haven't been 
happier.

Dec 21, 2003, at 10:49 AM, Sean LeBlanc wrote:

> Has anyone ever done this? I've tried twice now, and seem to keep 
> getting
> timeouts...but maybe that's still my ISP...ever since Aug, there has 
> been
> issues of downloading things - if it wasn't for wget, I would never 
> have
> been able to get (large) ISO images.
>
> I'm able to burn the ISO and boot the ISO. I was able to enable 
> networking
> and thought I was off to the races...but the step that loads 40-some 
> megs
> from the server you point it to just seems to halt at some (different 
> every
> time) point.
>
>
> -- 
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