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I thought all versions of linux were free to download. I was looking through the SuSE site and it seems they only offer an "evaluation" for download. Not the full OS? Can someone confirm or deny this?
"SuSE has chosen to not make freely available an installable i386/Intel version of their Linux distribution. They do, however, make an installable version available for the Sparc architecture, meaning Sun computers. The i386 version is a demo, uninstallable, evaluation Linux OS."
When you do a ftp installation though you have to translate that to xxx.xxx.x.xx format. SuSE IMO isn't worth the money you pay, i've been there, done that so take my word on it.
What a buch of ..... What the hell is SuSE thinking. Kinda pisses me off. Well I heard BSD is king but I also heard its not something you start out with. So it looks like Ill stick with mandy or go back to RH. Are there any other flavors out there that are worth it. Heard slackware is a pain to install for newbies...
I dont know how to convert ftp to xxx.xxx.x.xx Any tutorials out there on this issue. Is it even worth it?
what do you mean you have to ftp in x.x.x.x format.. i am sure any ftp program you can type the name of their ftp site which is ftp.suse.com ?? that works.. just tested it...
Nope, when you install SuSE from the floppy disks even if you setup the DHCP server and DNS correctly it still doesnt register correctly. So have the number handy.
you talking about after you start the install from the floppies you need the IP address to install via FTP, maybe since you wouldn't have DNS entries to lookup by name possibly.... but you can FTP to their servers using ftp.suse.com when already connected to net.
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