On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:33, Bill wrote: > I have tried the Suse 9.3 LiveCD and discovered that it esily found my > Dvico Fusion HDTV DVB-T card ( something that I've had no luck with other > distros), so I would like to try an install of Suse 9.3. > > There are 5 CD' iso's available. > > Question - how many CD's are necessary for an install? I'm remembering > installs of some time ago where CD 4 and 5 were non-free/source etc and not > really necessary in other distros. > > I've Googled and can't find this info, nor can I see it on Novell's site. > > A post to Usenet alt.os.linux.suse just got the advice to do an ftp > install. This is also a bandwidth waste if a re-install becomes necessary. > > I don't want to waste time/bandwidth/download limits, and that is why I > wont try a DVD iso dload ( apart from the fact that its total size is > greater than the 5 CD isos due to including unnneeded 64-bit distro). > > Can anybody advise please? > > Bill
If you don't want to download all the CD's it may be easier to do an ftp install. This will minimise the amount of bandwidth used as you will only be downloading the packages needed. You will find an iso called 9.3-x86-64-Network-Installation.iso which will allow you to do the install. http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/suse/i386/9.3/iso/ Have a look at SUSE LINUX 9.3 ftp version http://www.novell.com/products/linuxprofessional/downloads/suse_linux/index.html -- Regards, Graham Smith -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
