On Monday 10 October 2005 16:50, Jerry Feldman wrote: [...]
You can make boot floppies. Look in the ./boot directory of the CD1 or DVD: There is a readme that tells you how to make the boot floppies. It is possible that your old PC is not able to boot from CD or DVD.
I looked at the bootfloppy stuff. Let me see if I understand this correctly... older versions of SuSE had like... ONE diskette that you'd insert and boot, in order to get the CD-based installation started. Now that SuSE is on DVD, I need to use mkbootdisk to make no less than EIGHT!!! diskettes for the same purpose? Holy crap! They sure made that easier. I don't think I've got eight diskettes in the entire house. Haven't used one for any purpose in five years. As a matter of fact, one of the diskettes I do have is the "SuSE Linux 7.0 Bootdisk"......... one of one, never used. Too bad I can't use that for something other than a blank.... oh yeah, I'll have to wipe it first, won't I. Kevin (thinking the wife might just stay at 9.2 for another year or two)