[ale] Happy Event! (was RE: SystemRescueCD got only one shot!)

[James Sumners]

You have three choices with 9.3 it seems. You can download a
netinstall ISO, a DVD ISO, or the individual CD ISOs.

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.3/iso

On 9/28/05, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
> John -
>
> Bear with me, as I'm not used to the SuSE way of doing things (anymore) -
>
> Did you have to download and burn ISOs to CD-R?  Is there a way to boot
> to just one CD and then do the rest from a local NFS/SMB/FTP server or
> from an Internet source?
>
> I've got my wife's laptop running on Gentoo but things like CDs, Wifi,
> USB, etc. are not managed well (yes, it's because I haven't explicitly
> *set them up* to be managed well - an acknowledged Gentoo bugaboo) and I
> wouldn't mind setting her up with a different distro.
>
> Jeff
>
> Mills, John M. wrote:
>
> >ALErs -
> >
> >Having re-sized my WinNT partition dramatically (40->10Gby), I decided to
> >try Linux installation. I installed SuSe-9.3 from a downloaded CD set ...
> >
> >Results were even better than I hoped.
> >
> >1) No problem setting up my partitions, including 8GBy as Fat32 for mutual
> >WinXP and Linux use.
> >
> >2) No problem identifying the peripherals in my Fry's house-brand laptop.
> >
> >3) X11 delivers a _better_ display than WinXP on the same machine.
> >
> >4) SuSe and 'linmodem' correctly identified the low-rent, AC'97 codec-based
> >~modem, configured it without complaint, and seem to manage it perfectly!! I
> >expected to fight with this, and only gave myself 50-50 odds of _ever_
> >having it work from Linux!
> >    YIPPEE!
> >
> >5) Dual WinXP/Linux boot setup through GRUB dropped in and works fine.
> >
> >6) When the partitioning and installation were done I re-tried
> >SystemRescueCD and it worked fine. (What's life without the occasional
> >mystery, if it comes out OK at the end?)
> >
> >It's my first SuSe installation; I doubt it will be my last. So far, I'm
> >_definitely_ a happy camper!
> >
> > - Mills
> >
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