With those releases I could do a basic install via CD. If later I needed to add the yast packages I found of interest I had 100% success install the additional packages via yast and the official online source.
With 10.0 I found this NOT to be true. I had several packages I wanted to install to CD only machines. Since the packages were only on the DVD, I tried the above sites you mention. The did NOT contain the packages I was looking for.
I ended up buying an external DVD drive so I could move it around from machine to machine so I could have access to the full 10.0 retail package. I consider that a definite step backwords in the SUSE distro mechanism.
FYI: I posted about this on this list several times. Typically I used the example of mt_st not being available on the sites you listed, but there were others.
Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century
Yours probably was a different thing, but I have a system that I built as just a network server (no cd/dvd) and was wondering about doing an ftp install. Couldn't I copy the dvd to a drive in my network, and ftp from the server to it, for an install? I'd like to, then move the image over to the new file server, so I don't have to pull out the disk.