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

[Mills, John M.]

Jeff -

I burned the _full_ 5-CD set and installed from those. Long project, but
(for once) Bittorrent max'd out my DSL link and kept it that way "till
morning". If you can burn a DVD, there are ISOs for that also. Won't drop
the download time, but the medium might be handier,or someone who has it
might burn you a copy.

I don't know about net-based alternatives, as this is my first SuSe
encounter. I booted my laptop from the 1st CD, which may have defaulted me,
or maybe I just chose my intended CD installation as a 'no-brainer' without
really thinking about it.

There was a basic or 'core' installation of some type that used a lot of
material off the first CD, then specific packages were loaded off the others
- in my [generic] installation, the amount pulled off the 4th and 5th CDs
was small indeed.

I expect more experienced pilgrims will chime in on this.

 - Mills 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
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Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:52 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Happy Event! (was RE: SystemRescueCD got only one shot!)

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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