When you say the entire installation directory, how do you mean? I want to download the files needed for the Pro install (mainly I want apache, etc during installation). Basically, I would like to put the files necessary for the FTP installation on a local computer and FTP to it. Which folder do I need off the SuSe FTPs?

I am now copying the entire 9.1 folder from the i386 directory off the FTP server, is this correct? I already have the 24meg ISO for booting.

no need for that... once you've got the module for your NIC loaded, you point the manual install to the ip address and directory. Once it connects, it'll d/l and run YaST, and then you can choose the packages you want.

Right, but I would like to have it locally though because I am a complete newb and I will most likely need reinstalls. So my method that I posted above is correct?

When you do an ftp install, the ftp site is automatically set as an install source. It'll download any official packages you may need later.

I'm beginning to get better at fixing broken apps without a complete reinstall. I completely broke my video apps a couple weeks ago. I used to reinstall the whole thing. Now, I just uninstall those packages that broke, then reinstall what worked.

Just an idea : Isn't it possible to just burn the installation tree on a rewritable DVD (provided you can of course! ) and then boot up from that and install Suse?

Vedad.

Not really, tried that last night.
I was looking for the 64 bit version and the mammoth (9.1 professional) is about 6 GB in size. Burning doesn't seem to be an option, since you can't really break it up into 2 DVDs easily.

Yes you can - as I have the Suse 9.0 DVD I picked up its structure! And the installation worked fine!

Here it is :

Put everthing on DVD 1, apart from - "nosrc" and "src" subdirectories of the Suse directory. (I put the nosrc directory on DVD 1 anyway, as there was room). BOTH DVDs should contain :

boot and media directories, and the files autorun.inf, content, COPYING, COPYING.tex, COPYRIGHT, COPYRIGHT.yast, INDEX.gz, ls-lR.gz, SuSEgo.ico.

That is it - the second DVD in my case just pretty much contains the source code - not used by most ordinary users...

Now the problem of booting - since Suse does not supply the DVD disc image, this DVD just burned as a data DVD will NOT boot on its own - the simplest solution I found to this is to take the provided boot.iso file from the boot directory and burn a CD (RW?) of it. Then just put it in, restart your machine, make sure the boot sequence first checks the CD/DVD drive, and when the loader says "Please make sure the Suse CD1 is in the drive", just put in the 1st burned DVD in, and VOILA!

This definitely works as that's how I upgraded my 9.0...

Hope this helps!

Vedad.

I think you should buy it from, amazon.com, search SuSE, and it will have 91 pro, its about 8 bucks including shipping