On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 11:59 -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote: > All 6 CDs consume 4 GB, which is only 1% of a desktop drive these days, > so I assume your drive is smaller than that.
It's possible that Stuart is installing numerous distros simultaneously using vmware or xen. In such cases, a 4-10gb disk image is very common. > For us, getting the OpenSUSE ISOs and update RPMs from the net takes > less time and effort than wading through Novell's portal to find > official enterprise SUSE updates. I would expect the RPMs to be 99% > compatible between OpenSUSE and SUSE, but in my experience, the > remaining 1% of differences between distributions eats hours and days of > sysadmin time, so I wouldn't even mix OpenSUSE and SUSE. This does illustrate a huge deficiency on Novell's part, though. I mean if they really want to sell SuSE as a product, they need to make sure it is at least as easy to use as OpenSuSE. Michael > > Shane > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
