On Friday 04 June 2004 20:04, Brad Bourn wrote:

On Friday 04 June 2004 12:01 pm, Thinker wrote:

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Hello All,

It has been a while since I installed SuSE via FTP. I am assuming that there are no ISO images available for this installation. Can someone provide me a link or instructions on how to get this OS on my machine?

There is an ISO for boot CD, then use that bootcd to point to ftp site....

Yes, and provide it with this boot arguments: install=http://ftp.suse.com/i386/9.1 or install=http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/9.1 Cheers, Leen -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

On Friday 04 June 2004 22:59, Leendert Meyer wrote:

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There is an ISO for boot CD, then use that bootcd to point to ftp site....

Yes, and provide it with this boot arguments:

please, if one does not have a CD burner, is there an alternative method ? -- best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________

On Saturday 05 June 2004 22:08, Mike McMullin wrote:

Yes you can create the five Floppies, you'll find them in the boot directory, download them and write them to floppies, put the first boot diskette into the drive and reboot the system, follow the prompts, and swap floppies as needed

have tried, and, Failed, many times to connect to internet, using Network Modules floppy. I have ISDN Modem connected by usb. My PC is stand-alone, home PC with Dial-Up What should I look for on Network Modules floppy, to get FTP connection ? thanks best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________

On Sunday 06 June 2004 08:19, Steve Reynolds wrote:

I haven't tried an FTP install 9.1, but with 9.0 if you are using an ADSL service with a PPPoE type of connection, you are out of luck here as the installation does not provide for dialling your ISP.

Your only solution may be to download the entire distro and install from a hard disk, alternatively buy the 9.1 Personal CD and upgrade to your desired level using the FTP servers

~ thank you for explaining :) -- best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 04:00, pinto wrote:

On Saturday 05 June 2004 22:08, Mike McMullin wrote:

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Yes you can create the five Floppies, you'll find them in the boot directory, download them and write them to floppies, put the first boot diskette into the drive and reboot the system, follow the prompts, and swap floppies as needed

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have tried, and, Failed, many times to connect to internet, using Network Modules floppy. I have ISDN Modem connected by usb. My PC is stand-alone, home PC with Dial-Up

What should I look for on Network Modules floppy, to get FTP connection ?

I would not really recommend that you do an FTP install with dial up. You are talking about a minimum of hundreds of Megs, which translates into many hours. I took a day or two to download the ftp version of 9.1 and I'm using aDSL. Perhaps a box set, personal, and then using apt to install other functionality would be a better way to go. Mike