On 11/19/04 11:13 AM, "Danny Sauer"
My time's somewhat valuable, whereas DVD readers are cheap. Personally, I'd prefer to just get a modern DVD drive and stick it in my old, outdated computer that can't play most current DVD movies or read the current format of DVD media, rather than waste all night downloading a bunch of packages...
Get a faster internet service :)
I would propose that SuSE provide a link to froogle.com, which lists a new ATAPI DVD drive (which reads double-layer media) for as low as $19. Yes, $19. Sell your old crappy drive on eBay for $5-$10, since there's a new sucker online ever minute, and you've made back 1/2 of the cost to move to a faster drive. Put the DVD drive in a networked machine, NFS export it, and install everywhere from that one, $10 drive. You'll save more than $10 worth of time.
If your time is _that_ valuable, you would not do all this.
--Danny, also noting that all the packages are available at ftp.suse.com a few weeks after the release...
Another reason for a faster ISP. -- Thanks, George Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software!