Larry Stotler wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Jim Henderson<hendersj@gmail.com> wrote:
It's not like DVD-ROM drives are hard to find cheap.
Sure, unless you need a specific model, like for my Powerbook. You can find them on eBay for about $590 shipped. I personally don't have that extra at the moment.
Or there's always the option of a network install.
Again, how about newbies?
newbies can stay with kde or gnome cd's. there are a lot of ways to install openSUSE. don't you have any usb port? you can stick there any support you want to supplement a cd. I recently installed opensuse on a small computer unable to boot from cd (don't even think of dvd's!). It could only boot floppies. do you want 11 to be available on floppies? I could install an old suse floppy version, copy the necessary files of the new one and boot from grub this new one. all the rest from usb or cd and newbie dont use such hardware with new distros. ask them to install vista :-) jdd -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org