On Tuesday 16 November 2004 21:57, Alex Daniloff wrote:
We've already bought over 25 sets of SuSE 9.2 Pro (Update) for all our eng. dept. I won't be able to justify to our purchasing dept. your option/proposition to buy another 25 sets of more expensive SLES9 for all our computers, to achieve virtually the same functionality. 9.2 shall work on our 64 bit platforms as it advertised! End of story!
Because you mentioned Dual Opterons I assumed that the machine was a server, and not workstation, that's why I recommended SLES. Obviously, for your kind of usage, Professional is the best choice. There's no reason to put SLES on workstations. A possible solution would be to copy the 64 bit part from the DVDs to a server on the network and then boot from the CD1 and perform network install from that. The easiest would be with ftp. I don't have the 9.2 box yet, and hearing about the double layer DVD, I'm not sure how one copies the 64 bit part only. And, at least to save something from this flame, maybe it would be useful to you if you'd understand the purpose of SUSE's Enterprise products. http://www.suse.de/en/business/index.html