On Sunday 04 May 2003 05:46, Derek Fountain wrote:
I was just wondering about the SuSE evaluation CD. I've never used it, and since I'm at the end of an expensive connection, downloading it to have a look isn't a great option for me.
What does it give you? Does it give you a complete-ish SuSE environment running purely from CD (and which could be used as a rescue disk in a pinch), or does it require an amount of hard disk space, and give you a limited SuSE installation on disk?
I've always assumed the former. Can anyone elaborate?
I used the 8.0 or 8.1 eval CD for a bit before buying 8.1 (and recently 8.2). It worked really well for me (on my old system - a 450MHz AMD K7 something). It *mainly* runs off the CD but needs about 100MB of HD space on your Windows disk to save the home directory and any config stuff it needs (which saves re-configuring your hardware each time). This 100MB exists as a single file as far as Windows is concerned. I found it very slow - but then again my old system was slow with a 4x CD-ROM drive. Apart from that it gives a complete, if basic, SuSE system. HTH -- Ray