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From: "JB2"
On 18 June 08, Brian K. White wrote:
As I also pointed out, just having a DVD drive doesn't mean you can even burn the DVD Isos. I'm looking at 4 computers and only 1 has a DVDRW drive. 2 have DVD-CDRWs and the other has only a CD drive. If I didn't have the DVDRW here, I'd be unable to burn the medium to begin with.
You don't ned a dvd burner to install from the dvd image. You can download it and loopback mount it and either rsync the contents to a usb drive or access the mount point via http/ftp/nfs http is the simplest to set up and use both on the server and client side imo.
And of course, you twit, every newbie to linux will know *instantly* what all that gobbledygook means. You should see a vet for that foot-in-mouth disease you've got.
A newbie should no more expect to do something like get current software to run on 10 year old hardware than they should expect to do anything else that is both out of the ordinary and outside of their particular field of expertise. A newbie, requiring things to "just work", should run old software on old hardware, or new software on new hardware. You also conveniently failed to notice that I also suggested writing up very newbie-friendly instructions on a wiki. You also conveniently fail to recognize that these are install disks, implying new installations, implying new hardware in most cases. Old machines are largely already running something, and for re-installs, should probably best just re-install the same thing. The remaining tiny fraction of people wanting to do something frankly silly should not consume suse's resources. If you can't upgrade the hardware, then what's so horribly unfair about not upgrading the software? No one is forcing you (figurative) to get 11.0 just because it came out. It doesn't magically break your existing install. It will be 2 more years yet most likely before the last cd distribution (10.3) gets pulled off the mirrors. By then, how many cd-only machines will need new installs? Suse will surly do whatever the market demands. So you vote for cd's. Fine. Apparently it's you and 65 other people, or else there would be cd's. Who knows, as 11.0 goes into production, maybe the calls will come pouring in and you'll be proven right. My guess is hardly anyone needs them anymore and if that's true then all my arguments so far stand. If not then not. It's not anything to get crazy over. I'm sorry you don't like what I have to say on this topic. You are free to have any kind of opinion. But if you want to argue it, you need to come up with a better counter argument than calling your debate opponent a twit. -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org