I'm trying to install 9.3 without burning the ISO. What I done is got a boot.iso from suse ftp for 9.2. Everything seems to be working, I have the 5 iso's for 9.3 on my ntfs partion, I can access the cd1 iso but right after the setup configure the hardware, it displays that there is an error with the software, meaning there is no software packages listed for install. I cannot locate it any place, it appear the directory to the hd1 and the path is listed there but says no software. Any suggestions?

I've tried to access the iso's through ftp option on the boot menu. I've setup a ftp server using an application on my other pc running xp. It appears that I can log in but the setup also tries to mount the "cd1.iso /boot/.... " but the ftp does not allow that I guess, so I'm sticking to the hard drive since it seems to be working besides the software issue. Any suggestions? Thank you.

Well I have a few suggestions. I'm not sure if you're using one hard drive w/ 2 partitions (hence your message about the NTFS partition) or if you are just using the FTP server on a networked computer.

I suggest creating a FAT32 partition and putting your ISOs on there and then seeing if you can install via that partition. When you tell it what local partition it is, its probably going to be hda2 or hda3 or something.

I remember seeing instructions about doing it this way somewhere... let me see if i can find it and get back to you.
I didnt find what I was looking for but this may help for FTP purposes:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=282185

Well this is what I've tried and how my setup looks like.

SETUP:
PC: the iso's are located on a fat32 partition on a windows xp system (main partition is ntfs)
Laptop: where I want to install suse; 60GB hd: (35GB NTFS (windows xp), ~5BG fat 32, 20GB designated for linux)

FTP Attempt:
used bulletproof ftp client, setup an account and shared the D: drive (fat32)...ran the boot disc, loaded lan driver in the kernel modules...then chose the FTP install, typed in the ip of my PC, user name, password...on the ftp program on my PC, it displayed that the laptop connected but then disconnected...then on the install it it asks for the direcotry of the files...I've entered "\cd1.iso" or what not, the FTP program displayed that it the laptop was about to download the iso, but the path was "cd1.iso /boot/blah"...and well I guess the laptop install tried to access the boot part in the iso, but did not know it was only an iso...so that did not work...

Hard Drive Attempt:
had the isos on fat32 and ntfs of the laptop...booted using the boot cd...entered the setup, chose the hard drive option...entered "cd1.iso" in teh directory and I guess it mounted because it began to boot, it seemed to find all the hardware and such since it displayed everything in the summary...however the software part was empty...it could not find any software but there was a path of "dev/hda2/.....bunch of stuff..auto"...I think that's the location of the iso, because I have hda1 = ntfs, hda2 = fat32...I can copy the message if its necessary...

I don't know what to do...