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[Ole Kofoed Hansen <okh-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops, I accidentally sent this to Philipp instead of the list.

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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 18:22:58 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ole Kofoed Hansen <okh-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Philipp Thomas <pthomas@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLE] live evalution vs the Cd set

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Philipp Thomas wrote:

> * Chris Reeves [Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:17:30 +0100]:
>
> >In theory, you can take the live-evaluation CD and download the missing
> >packages from the SuSE site (excluding the commercial type ones of
> >course) and produce roughly the equivalent of the full distribution.
>
> No, you can't, exactly because nothing gets installed to your hard disk
> and you can't make the live eval install to the disk. The only way to
> get an installed system is to download all packages and then do an
> installation from disk as described in the manual (which is available as
> a pdf file).

Except that you don't have to download ALL the packages.
Just make sure that you have all the stuff that is needed
during the install.

Regards

Ole