[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Last night I downloaded the entire SUSE directory tree (7.2Gb) from > > Jetstreamgames and used it for an FTP installation on an old box here at > > work. > > > > All hardware was detected, even the isa soundcard. I am very impressed > > with this distro. Entire installation on the PII, 300Mhz, 256Mb ram took > > less than an hour over FTP > > The common wisdom seems to be that a network install will beat a cd > install simply because the medium is faster, and you do not have ot futz > around with swapping cd's etc.
Seems bout right the fastest install I've ever done was MDK 10.0 from an ftp using a 100Mb network (I'd simply dumped the contents of the iso's into a folder). The computer was an Athlon XP 1900 so with the CD's the slowest thing had been the file transfer rate. Going from 3 or so MBs to 10MB's quite nice. and certainly drops the install time. Of course I'm not exactly sure why you downloaded the whole tree would have been alot quicker just to do an ftp install through the realm. As surely your not going to use all the stuff. Chad > I lose cd's, floppies, bits of paper. Ideally information (that includes > documentation, legal files, software et al) should be available online > with good search tools. > > > If anyone else wants the tree let me know - I have it on a laptop. > > > > -- > > Robert Fisher > > www.fisher.net.nz
