I just received my copy of 7.1 Professional. When I opened the box CD#6 was cracked. Can someone let me know what is included on that disc? I'd like to start the install this weekend, but I'm not sure if I should even try if I don't have everything I need. Go ahead and start the install. Yast asks for the CD's in order, and a 'minimum' configuration never seems to go beyond disk 2 or three, so I

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Dale Schuster wrote: think it's safe to say that you'll still have a functioning system if you have to bypass everything on disk six. (I believe that's mostly source rpms.) When you do the install, take the option to save a configuration file. Then after you abort it, go back to the top, declare your installation source to be the FTP site, and re-start the installation. It'll pick up where it left off. I did essentially this with an install to a laptop where I couldn't have both the Floppy and the CD present at once. I booted from the floppy, chose the FTP install, and mounted the CD-ROM on my desktop machine. Unfortunately, the 'FTP install' expects a unified tree of RPMs, and doesn't prompt for the next disk. So I ended up seeing hundreds of 'not found' errors flash by... I mounted the next CD, selected 'begin installation' again, and did some more. After five cycles, it had found everything. I expect if you did the first 'pass' from the local CDs, then the second pass from the FTP site, you'd get all you want. Enhancement wish for the SuSE folks: Now that you've got the update packages integrated with the full distribution on the FTP site, how about an option in yast to compare both sources, and install the newest? In one pass, grab the updated packages from the FTP site, and the stable ones from the faster local CD... -- Rick Green "I have the heart of a little child, and the brain of a genius. ... and I keep them in a jar under my bed"