What release of windowz ???? 1. you need a CD writer, if you do not have one yet, CHECK them out against your OS !!!! FIRST !! 2. you need some CDRW's !! I like to use these first, then copy then to CDR disks, that way I do not blow away good CD's in the event of a write/read failure... 3. I use HP CD RECORD on my win 2000 system (finally got a driver to support my USB external HP 8200 cd writer) only waited 7 months... 4. you can omit the SRPMS, but I usually download the whole darn thing.... good luch Ken Dreger (presently unemployed also) If anybody needs a systems person call me 949 5890 6821
At 07:57 AM 9/2/2002 +0200, you wrote: > > With the exception of Debian, and Turbolinux, none of the Linux/390 > > distributions are available via .iso images. SuSE, and Red Hat only offer > > individual RPMs and SRPMs. As recommended by Philipp, wget will be your > > friend. Once you have them downloaded you can verify the integrity of the > > RPMs by using rpm to check the md5sums. Or, as Alan Cox pointed out, you > > can download the public key of the distribution maker, and use rpm to > verify > > the packages that way. > >Mark, this looks like it assumes my downloading is done >on a linux machine, which (unfortunately?) is not the case. >I have been using WS-FTP on W98 (at home!) to download all >of the /cd1 directory from the SuSE sles beta site, and I am >almost finished it (still using non broadband modems). > >Something that is disturbing is that there seem to be >large areas of the tree which are apparently just links >to files in other areas, but I am getting them duplicated >in my download. I already have far more than 650MB, >and am getting worried that a 700MB CD will also not >be enough. > >Are there any tips available regarding how to build a SuSE >CDROM on a Windows system? Are there recommended >areas in the tree to 'prune' in order to save space? This is >another reason why I am sorry there is no ISO format, >although I do understand what seem to be SuSE's marketing >concerns. > >Thank you all for your help, it is always encouraging >knowing there are experts willing to help out! > >Shimon-- >************************************************************************ >Shimon Lebowitz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >VM System Programmer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Israel Police National HQ. >http://www.poboxes.com/shimonl/pubkey.htm >Jerusalem, Israel phone: +972 2 530-9877 fax: 530-9308 >************************************************************************
