On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:41:40PM -0700, Eric Jensen wrote: > You can get ISO of the eval version there, but not the full. Only > option for that is the FTP install, which from what I remember wasn't > the smoothest process I've experienced with Linux. Especially if you > have a NIC that isn't all that supported and takes a bit of work to get > up and running. I even tried running a local FTP with the same > directory structure with no luck. Getting full non-eval ISOs for Suse > is not easy, I remember having to search all over for a torrent file. > From what I gather, this has been a huge negative for moving over to > Suse for a lot of people. Doing a several gig install over your > internet connection doesn't sit well with a lot of people. Installs can > take long enough as it is, especially if you are the type who like to do > the easy full install.
I thought about that. :-) I'm not wild about loosing my connection or some such half way throught the installation. That's one reason I prefer NFS installation: I've actually had to reboot my NFS server half way through an installation of FC3. The installation picked right up and went on without a hiccup. I'm going to try hauling in the DVD iso and opening it as a loopback device, and mounting that under my ftp tree. Then I'll see if the FTP installation ISO can use my local server. > > After I did get Suse installed, I was not impressed. It was pretty and > user friendly, but horribly unstable. Out of all the Distros I tried > over that week (Debian, Slackware, Fedora, Mandrake, and a few others I > forget) Suse was by far the most unstable. Interesting. Which version of Suse? I had no problems installaing or running 9.1 on my testbed (1.1 GHz Athlon, 120 MB main memory, 20 GB HD. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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