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I'm planning on installing Suse 9.1.
My question is if it's possible to download the whole package from the ftp site, burning it on a DVD-R disk and later on when running the SUSE boot disk choosing that newly burned disk as source instead of an ftp site or another local disk?
this way I can always have the suse package on a DVD instead of taking place on another disk.
Originally posted by Hachaso I think you're wrong dude.
I've found the whole distro in several places.
The live CD is one thing...the other is the whole distro.
ask around and you'll see.
the way for you to LEGITIMATELY obtain Suse 9.1 professional is to PAY FOR IT...
it's a COMMERCIAL DISTRO...
obviously, you can find anything on the internet, that doesn't make it right...
linux isn't about warez, and neither is this website...
suse provides the personal cd so you can decide if you want to buy the "real thing"...
you haven't seen any links to the the Suse 9.1 professional ISOs on the suse/novell website, have you??
In there you can find different versions also the live-CD but the other versions are not the same as the live CD.
This is an official mirrorsite of Suse.
I've asked and they told me that you should burn the boot.iso file to a CD...and boot it...later give an ftp site to install the whole distribution...or copy it to a local disk or computer and install from there.
My question following this was if I could burn the whole package from there...and give that burned DVD as the source instead of the ftp site?
It is possible to download the full set of Suse rpms to a secondary machine or another local drive, then do a Manual Installation with that partition as the source. Note that you'll need to transfer about 3.3G of data, which can take a very long time depending on your connection speed. -- J.W.
Originally posted by win32sux the way for you to LEGITIMATELY obtain Suse 9.1 professional is to PAY FOR IT...
it's a COMMERCIAL DISTRO...
obviously, you can find anything on the internet, that doesn't make it right...
linux isn't about warez, and neither is this website...
suse provides the personal cd so you can decide if you want to buy the "real thing"...
you haven't seen any links to the the Suse 9.1 professional ISOs on the suse/novell website, have you??
i didn't think so...
Umm, mind if I disagree?
The only "proprietary" part of SuSE is Yast. Nothing stops me from taking the non-yast, non-proprietary rpms off of the CD's and putting them up on a FTP site. Anything that's GPL'ed is fair game.
And then nothing stops anyone else from using my site as a host to upgrade their version of SuSE.
Originally posted by rootboy The only "proprietary" part of SuSE is Yast.
i can give text/planmaker as examples of other propietary software included in suse 9.1 professional...
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Nothing stops me from taking the non-yast, non-proprietary rpms off of the CD's and putting them up on a FTP site.
yes, but that's not suse 9.1 professional... that's RPMs from suse 9.1 professional... it's not the same thing... my post clearly states that i'm talking about the suse 9.1 professional DISTRO...
you could even strip the propietary software from the suse 9.1 professional cd and put installation ISOs on your ftp site if you want, but that's not suse 9.1 professional, that's a customised distro BASED on suse 9.1 professional...
I don't think either of you understand what he's saying..
When you dot he FTP install of SuSE 9.1 Professional, you download the 23 MB ISO and then proceed to direct the installer to the FTP site.. under this bootable installer it gives you an option to specify different locations for the packages... such as CD-ROM, HTTP, Local Hard Disk, Network Share, etc..
I think what he is saying is:
Can he download the whole FTP directory... Burn it to a DVD-R, and then use the bootable CD from boot.iso to direct it to the DVD for installation files... YOU CAN DO THIS.. and I don't see anything that would say it's not legal.. it's the exact same thing.. and this would be ideal if he didn't have broadband internet at home, but had access to it at a friend/relatives house...
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