I have downloaded the 5 cd's of SUSE 10.0 GM from different sources. Some of them are titled "SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD1.iso" and some others are "SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-GM-CD4.iso" for example. Will a mix of these iso's work on an install?
What does the "OSS" mean?
Thanks

cd1 should be same cd on any mirror same with 2-5 but as i said should! i have never tried to change mirrors like that b4 but i have with the bittorrents

It makes not one bit of a difference. The .iso images are the same no matter where you get them from.

if got different, u waste your time.

??? Who knows the answer? Do I install these or not? Go for it/try again? Install/Your screwed? Help!

The short answer is, no, not in the way you mean.

First, some clarification - any CD image with "OSS" in the title is the Open Source ONLY version. The ones without "OSS" are the retail CDs, and contain a few non opensource (but free, nonetheless) packages such as Java, Adobe Reader, etc. Therefore, if you're going for the OSS version, then download only OSS cd images, otherwise go for the non-OSS version. Other than the non-open source packages included in the retail version, there is NO difference between it and the OSS version. Check this out for more info: http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/op...-Oct/0003.html

So, in short, you can download the same edition's CDs from anywhere you like. So long as their all either OSS or non-OSS but not mixed, you can download the ISOs from wherever you want.

Hope that makes sense.