No, the DVD was not shipped with that computer, that's all XP based and all works fine. I don't really need Suse on that machine; I was just wanting to play around with Linux with a view to putting it on my older computers (which I have several of) I thought it might make them easier to sell if they had an operating system all preinstalled on them, but alas no takers yet.
I bought the DVD off a guy on TradeMe, I figured it was easier to pay five bucks than download something that big, even with broadband, which as it turns out was not easier at all as I think I ordered the wrong thing, I think I was meant to ask for normal 32 bit, but being a complete newbie to Linux I did not really know what I wanted :-). I was also intending to install it via my home network to older machines, but of course when I tried to do that I realized I had to boot to the DVD from the machine it was going on, none of which had DVD drives. So before I started ripping drives out of my new machine I thought I would at least test the disk by booting it on my new machine, it booted fine, but as I was saying in last message it would boot, but would not install. So hence I have what I think is a 64 bit version of Open Suse 10 on a brand new DVD disk that's no use to me. In the end I downloaded the one CD version of Suse and went from there. It took a couple of days, (good thing I have an all you can eat account :-) But eventually I got what I wanted. Kind Regards Reg
