why there is no ISO. file to burn the CD?
the download sites is populated with several files.
can u teach me ?

You should be able to download a live cd/dvd version of SuSE up to version 10.0 (Remember, SuSE is a commercial distro; not free), or you can go for the new OpenSuse 10.0, which you should be able to install.

yes... and no. it is a commercial distro but the EULA does not prohibit the free redistribution of it. i went through this in agonizing detail when 9.3 was released and had published a bittorrent of the boxed-set ISOs. i was ultimately vindicated when a high-level suse program manager, AJ, who is now one of the top dogs at suse involved with the new opensuse, agreed with my interpretation of the EULA. he went so far as to personally post on the official suse linux english discussion list that my bittorrent was acceptable under the conditions of even the boxed-set EULA. it's possible but unlikely that the EULA in 10.0 has prohibitively changed. i'll read it very carefully before actually publishing a torrent of the ISOs made from my own boxed-set. in the unlikely event that the EULA has prohibitively changed in 10.0 then i will comply and won't publish the torrent. otherwise, i intend to publish it as soon as i can make the ISOs and verify the EULA.

not trying to be argumentative, honest, and i apologize if this comes off that way. i just want to clear the air about this because there is and has been much misunderstanding and confusion about this in the past and i've shouldered a lot of ugly comments from well-meaning but misinformed suse supporters.

suse knows who i am, they have my real name, address, and home phone number. i have openly and unambiguously spoken with them about the legality of publishing free bittorrents of ISOs made from the retail boxed-set and i was assured in no uncertain terms that it is not a problem.

can suse dual boot with windows?

Yes, SUSE can dual boot with Windows.

easily or difficult?

i'd say easily. if windows is installed before suse then my experience is that suse does a pretty good job of detecting that and setting up GRUB (the bootloader / menu that suse uses by default) to boot both suse and windows.

i tried fedora core 4,
my xp did not boot after that.
i am scared!
mandriva is all the time ok.
i prefer mandriva.
but i do want to try other linux, like kubuntu.

TigerLinux:

To answer your first question, you can download the 5 ISOs for openSUSE 9.3 from here:

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse/i386/9.3/iso/

These are the OSS ISOs. The difference between the boxed set that you would buy from SUSE or that knetknight offers through a torrent and the OSS ISOs is the proprietary applications that SUSE pre-loads in the package (if purchased from SUSE you are purchasing also the installation support from Novell). The OSS is ALL open source (from my understanding). Java, Adobe, etc. are proprietary software and therefore not included in the ISOs, but are just as easily attainable through the mirrors after the install as part of updates and software installs.

You can do an FTP install by downloading this ISO:

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse/i3...stallation.iso

This is the initial ISO to get the ball rolling, the rest of the install comes through the internet. A typical package with KDE at a 3 mb down rate can take about 2 hours to complete.

I multiboot with M'shaft XP Home, openSUSE 9.3, and Xandros 3 OCE and it works great.

P.S. openSUSE 10 comes out in a few days, why not wait for 10?

thanks, but i decided to use mandriva now,
later i will buy another HDD to solely install suse and fedora.

FWIW, I instralled SuSE 9.2 alongside Windows no problem.

The install procedure recognises the existence of the other operating system and writes the GRUB details accordingly.

No need to be scared of dual booting between XP and SuSE.

L.

why suse got 5 CDs? too many!
do we need all of them?

Does SUSE automatically mount CDROM and FAT32 and NTFS?

I burn a CD with the image and it worked well until I would be asked about the IP address of the ftp server. How is it possible to know the IP?

Thanks.

Xpucto

Ping the IP addresses of the mirrors you want to use and make sure you know the paths to the Suse version you want to install.

It asking you for an IP address is really misleading.

Input the primary URL, (i,e., mirror.mcs.anl.gov) It is not asking you for numbers (i.e., 62.175.39.458)

You may then be asked for the directory, input: (i.e., /pub/suse/i386/current/)