That's right chaps, SuSe 8.0 can now be downloaded from their ftp site not in ISO form though but still the floppy images or alternatively cd image (16 mgs or something)it will setup your machine to download and install the files from SuSe's ftp server
the only problem is that is only recommended for ADSL users
as this may take quite a while for dialup modem users.
Anyway, i am on my way to try this !!!!


floppy disk images (like 6 or more)ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/8.0/disks

or CD image (what a waste of CD)ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/8.0/disks/boot.iso

for those who are or live in germany http://www.suse.com/us/support/downl...m_mirrors.html

and your mirror near you http://www.suse.com/us/support/downl...t_mirrors.html

Regards

it's been available for download since the day it was released...

i don't know, the news were delivered to me on 8/6/02

Regards

Why don't they (SuSE) cut the cr@p and release full ISO images of 8.0 like everyone else? What's up with that?

Suse is real slow most of the time anyway. When I had Suse and did a onlineupdate it took always forever - any day any time. It looked like they limit to something like 10kb/s per user - have fun downloading!

you have to select the nearest mirror !!
i get a nice 43.57KB a sec (average)

I tried the FTP-Setup of SUSE 8.0, but for me it didn't work.
I downloaded the disk images and start the setup on the disks. After I configured my networksetup, the Yast 2 was loaded from the server and started the installation. It asked me if I wish to start an update and showed the status bar.
But for the whole update ( about 700 packets ) it needed only 10 minutes, and restarts without any error message.

The linux remained as it was before the update.

any ideas?

Sounds like you told Yast to do a onlineupdate. There it shows all updates that are on the server but only downloads the updates for the packages that are actually installed.

I tried nearly all options available. I tried both the option to only update the packages already installed ant the to do a an update and install the packages necessary for a system with GUI and offices. In both cases it said it would update about 600-700 packages but completed the whole process after some minutes.
But even if it would update only the packages on my Computer ( Suse 7.3 ) it should certainly have to update a lot of packages. Furthermore my System wasn't updated. When I restarted it showed still SuSE 7.3 on Startup.

It seems, that the first setup failed but changed the base system in a certain way. When I start yast1 from my old system, it says, thattt it would be an 8.0 version. But all the packages installed are equal to the versions on the 7.3 install media. When I try to install now from 7.3 media it says my version is newer than the version on the media and refuses setup. When I use 8.0 media and the yast on my harddisk it says, that my yast version is too old.
Does anyone know, why the setup on the 8.0 disks doesn't install anything, or how I could either install 8.0 or at least change my base system back to 7.3?

You better check with the suse website - I don't think you can update from 7.3 to 8.0 online. Way i understand the deal is that you have to buy a update cd at reduced price if you bought 7.3 or have to install the whole thing from scratch if you want 8.0 - but i may be wrong.

I am doing the FTP install of 8.0, and it's been taking forever.

So far it's at 31% after downloading for about 20 hours. (Might be my fault, I may have picked too many packages.)

And yes, I'm using a mirror.

I figure this is the last distro I'm going to try.

So far I've ran Mandrake 8.2, RH 7.3 and Lycoris.

Out of those, I prefer Mandrake, but I'm giving SuSE a try just to say I'm doing it.

If you are a newbie like me and want to try SuSE FTP install, make sure you know your ethernet card type, the IP address of your local mirror and the full path on the FTP site to the 8.0 install. (AFAIK there is no browse feature, you have to type in the path yourself.)

I did a google search and found a win32 program for making the bootdisk images, so I made my 4 floppies and I was off and running.

Of course, I have to babysit the install, because it keeps failing out and I need to click Retry.

plug - with debian you only need to download what you need; took me 4 hrs total - end plug

I'm quite sure, that the network and ftp settings are correct. It downloaded the setup program (ca 38mb) so I think the ftp setting must be correct.
I'm not sure, if an update is possible, but the setup program asked if I want to update my system, so I'd guess it should be somehow possible.

Does anyone know the ip address of the suse-ftp install?
I seem to be stuck on that part :-/ it needs an ip address & path, but I havent been able to find it on the suse.com help site :-()
-Thanks-