HOW THE HELL DO I FIND THE IP ADDRESS SO I COULD DO THIS OVER THE INTERNET (DAMN LINUX SUCKS) I HEARD U HAVE TO USE THE DIG FEATURE IN TERMINAL...I DID THAT AND I GOT A IP ADDRESS BUT AFTER I TRIED TO PUT IT ON THE BOOT THE SYSTEM DIDN'T FIND IT OR SOME SHIT.... THIS SHIT IS HARD... LINUX WONT SUCCEED BEYOND WINDOWS GUARANTEED

ARGH!!!!!

Stop Yelling!

LOL.

Okay, now that that's out of the way.

From the OpenSuSE installation page
http://www.opensuse.org/Released_Ver...t_Installation
You'll need to download the .iso image for the boot cd, which I'll assume you've already done.
Then you'll need to get the name of the repository that stores the install information.

This is found here.
http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/open...S/inst-source/

Then you'll need to get the IP address of suse.mirrors.tds.net.

From a windows (or Linux) platform, nslookup should work
ie

nslookup suse.mirrors.tds.net

this will return 2 IP addresses (at least now it does)
12.215.23.2
216.31.243.165

Use one or the other as the IP address

Linux has and will continue to succeed, and has garnered a large foothold in corporate america, where Windows is slipping.

Not because it's easier than Windows, because let's face it. Right now, it's not easier than Windows.
However, it is a helluva lot more stable than Windows has ever been.

We've got Linux servers doing small dedicated services that haven't been rebooted in over 3 years. No patches, no updates, no restarts, nothing. Just plodding along without hassle.

Try that with a Windows system.... (I guarantee, it will never happen)

The longest running, without an admin touching it, box that I've heard of was a Novell Netware server that ran for over 5 years, walled up in a closet somewhere. They only found it when someone was tracing a network cable that no-one knew what it was hooked up to.

Oh well, I digress.

HTH,

Nawar

thanks for the info. it does run a hell of a lot better than windows. i've used the live cd of SUSE...BUT I HAVE NOT GOTTEN IT INSTALLED YET!! argh...okay enuff of that..well i went to the download page of suse 10.0

http://www.opensuse.org/Released_Version

and got downloaded and burned the image sucessfully yatty yatty yah... i dung the ip address and success..but would you think the complications would end there....i think not .... now its asking me for the directory of the server...(by the way i choose...automatic configuration via dhcp to be yes.....and use a http proxy to no...now i gotta install the computer where to install it from from the servers directory...but i dont know how to...if you click the link or copy and paste it or just simply go to the download site you'd see im right
when i wrote ding download.opensuse.org in terminal on my linux live cd i got the ip address...195.135.221.130 so i took this and i put it on the boot system and it got connected but i just dont know what to write.... i tried putting in the directory where i see the
installation Repository (http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...S/inst-source/) <<<thats what i wrote..but all i got was http 404 not found...and then i tried a directory i saw in the index of that last url....aaaaah man this sucks

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!
IS THERE ANYONE OUT THEIR WHO COULD HEELP PLLLLLLLLLLEEEEASSSEEE!!!!!!!!!!

ALRIGHT JUST IN CASE I WASNT CLEAR BEFORE

I GOT THE IP ADDRESS....BUT HOW...I REPEAT....HOW ,WHEN ,WHY WHERE, FROM WHO, YAKKATIY YAK PLEASE TALK BACK..... CAN I FIND THAT DARN DIRECTORY???? HOW DO YOU FIND OUT THE DIRECTORY???? DO I HAVE TO MAKE,BUY, SELL, OR KILL FOR ONE?????SOMEONE PLEASE....TALK TO ME!!!! IM CONNECTED BUT I HAVE TO FIND THE DIRECTORY FOR IP ADDRESS 195.135.221.130

PLEASE STOP SHOUTING. SERIOUSLY, IT IS ANNOYING BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND YOUR POINT AND WE GOT IT ALREADY. THANKS.

Although the following tutorial describes how to do a network installation of SuSE v9.1 rather than 10.0, I believe the basic information remains both relevant and helpful. Good luck with it.

since the IP address replaces the *host name*
the directory name is obviously the part that comes after that.

ie

/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/

Hmm, actually, he's right. They could make it easier you know, post the bloody link that you're supposed to enter when doing internet install! I mean, the only thing that keeps me from succeeding in this is the fact I can't find necessary information easily enough. But I guess they just don't want to make it easy for people to get Linux that way..