Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1156 mails)

[satan@xxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Lankton)]

Look, I hate to sound intolerant, but you simply aren't getting it.  You
boot off the boot floppy,  then you install off the cd.  This isn't
particularly arcane or hard to grasp.  What exactly are you trying to
do? Install from windows?  Normally I don't think this is particularly
constructive, but in your case my advice to you is RTFM.

Ezekiel J. Krahlin wrote:
> 
> At 01:45 AM 5/20/98 -0500:
> 
> Obvious? I am supposed to be able to install from CD-ROM, according to the
> SuSE manual. And I was able to do so with Slackware, and Red Hat. The whole
> reason I got the CD-ROM--in particular, SuSE 5.2--was to avoid older, more
> tedious installation methods. Else I may as well have FTP-downloaded the OS
> myself...and not paid $50 for the "convenience".
> 
> Doesn't it seem strange to you that my sbpcd CD-ROM does not show up on the
> list...or an "autoprobe" option? On the CD-ROM install, once I select
> language, color and keyboard, I am presented with this list of CD-ROM
> types...minus the one I need. This has never occurred to me, when I
> installed RedHat and Slackware. I don't see anything obvious about this
> situation...instead, I find it downright absurd.
> 
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