Well I think its a bit more complicated than that. The Suse 10.0 CD1 installer runs using your cd drive by default. If after a few steps of the program, you click abort, it will abort you to a less fancy GUI.
You then have a bunch of options to load your network module (what you'll need to do first) then perhaps theres a way to Alt-F2 to a new console to run your python. But then again, thats assuming that when you get a new console that python is installed