[clue-tech] SuSE 9.2 free from Novell

[Mike Staver]

Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:06:13 -0700, Mike Staver <staver at fimble.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>I applaud this, I really do - however I'm one of those guys that hates
>>>>wasting bandwidth everytime I want to install an OS... would it be
>>>>against Suse/Novell's policy for someone to offer a CD set of 9.2 in
>>>>iso format for download? I'm guessing it probably is, but I thought
>>>>I'd check once again.
>>>
>>>
>>>You mean like this one:
>>>
>>>ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.2/iso/SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso
>>
>>Yeah - isn't that the disc though that when you boot from it, it starts
>>downloading what you need over ftp?  That's the one I was talking about
>>- I guess I just prefer to have all the rpms on disc.
> 
> 
> No. The ISO DVD has all the RPMs on it. There's a CD-ROM ISO that's
> for FTP installs. They do lack a set of ISOs for CD, but if you have a
> DVD burner, then you can just download the DVD iso and go to town.

Wow, very impressive - thanks for the info. I assumed since the DVD had 
the word "ftp" in it, that it was the ftp type install. Suse Rocks for 
putting that up.