Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 08:50, James Knott wrote:
> Mike McMullin wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 14:07, David Bolt wrote:
> >>On Mon, 30 May 2005, Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:-
> >>
> >>>On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 07:31 -0700, Scott Leighton wrote:
> >>>>     The CD may have 32 bit on one side and 64 bit on the
> >>>>other, I know that 9.1 and 9.2 shipped that way. If you
> >>>>install the 32 bit side on a 64 bit machine, that's the message
> >>>>you will get.
> >>>>
> >>>I believe it was the DVD that was doubled sided, not the CD's.
> >>SuSE only shipped double sided DVDs with 9.0 and 9.1. From 9.2 they
> >>swapped to using dual layered instead.
> > 
> >   Just exactly what is required to read these new DVDs?
> > 
> > 
> 
> A DVD drive.


  Not to be trite James, but I have an old DVD drive.  I'm curious as to
whether I'll have to use the CD's to install if my old Sony cannot read
the new style DVD.