If you go to www.cnet.com and read the Linux OS reviews -- the most common complaint about suse is that downloads time out at ftp.suse.com -- you might have better sucess using a non suse mirror like tucows.

  Tom Wesley <tawesley@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,

I've been trying to make a boot disk for my cable modem to be able to install
SuSE from the ftp site. As there seems to be no support for dhcp in the
install program itself, I've had the useful idea (?) of getting the kernel to
do this beforehand. However, I've had little luck in getting it to work.

I supply the boot param ip=dhcp and the kernel starts the lookup. This then
just times out and dies.

eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000.
Sending DHCP requests .,??..... timed out!
IP-Config: Reopening network devices...
IP-Config: Complete:
device=eth0, addr=213.105.119.110, mask=255.255.255.0,
gw=213.105.119.254, host=213.105.119.110, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
bootserver=0.0.0.0, rootserver=0.0.0.0, rootpath=

A little further on the first line is repeated, but with no following lines.
My question is, will the dhcp do this? Or is it designed soley for use with
diskless machines? And if it should work, does anyone have anything like this
working?

Cheers for any help,
Tom

ps Are there any women who read this list? Not that I'm trying to meet any,
just investigating the apparent male dominance where linux is concerned :)

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