I just downloaded the SuSe 9.1 personal twice. Both times after I got them I tried burning them to CD, but they not only failed the burn, they crashed my system. And, Windows decided to do a full system scan. I let it do this once, and it found the ISO as a corrupt file. I'm wondering why this would be?

I've downloaded the boot.iso also, and that burned okay and now SuSe seems to be installing fine on my other PC through the FTP intstallation.

I'm just wondering why the large one will not load. Hm... it's not a DVD ISO is it? For Personal? It's about 712 Meg. Wouldnt even fit on my 650 Meg CD-Rs. I had to go buy a 700 Meg CD-R.

Thanks.

Cynthia Blue,

I ssume that you downloaded the SuSE 9.1 off the SuSE site. When you burn an ISO image you must be sure to burn it via ISO9660 and then let the data be verified. This basically does the check sum for you.

I use the Linux cd / dvd burner k3b. Whatever you are using you should burn your ISO image at nothing faster than 4X. Too many have tried, to do it too fast.

The Personnal edition of SuSE 9.1 lacks a good deal of features. I thought that I'd pass that along. There was 9.1 Personal for free download, then the boxed Pro version and now we are at 9.2 Pro.

It depends on what you want to do, but 9.1 Personal might be too limited for ya'.

The SuSE-Personal ISO is a preview or trial version similar to the live-eval, aside from the fact that it installs to your hard drive, if you want the free SuSE Personal version FTP is the only way to do it. The FTP version is more like Pro or Personal Plus, since you can add pretty much any package from either set from the sources avalible on the FTP server and it's mirrors.

burned my SuSE 9.2 Live-Eval ISO image to CD at 24x with k3b, as a non-root user, and in kernel 2.6.9, no problems

I was getting the ISO off this site, under Linux Downloads. I was reading on another post or two that you can do the personal version, then install packages so much as to basically have pro? Perhaps I misunderstood that.

Anyway, the ftp install is still going okay. And I did burn the boot.iso fine onto my CD... so I did use the correct burning technique for and iso. My windows PC is still thinking it has bad sectors and wants a thorough scandisk so I'll have to do that soon I think.

However it froze mid install last night so I'll have to include less packages. I found a great google post about how to do an ftp install:

google post

Edit: when burning the ISO i'm doing so on my windows 98 computer and using roxio.

Cynthia Blue,

The SuSE 9.1 Pro edition is 5 cds. Plus 2 DVDs. There is both the 32 + 64 Bit versions on the disks.

Again, I thought that I'd just through this in FYI.

Cynthia Blue,

The SuSE 9.1 Pro edition is 5 cds. Plus 2 DVDs. There is both the 32 + 64 Bit versions on the disks.

Again, I thought that I'd just through this in FYI.

I downloaded suse 9.1 personal too and it does lack alot of stuff, mainly gcc and the kernel sources. And yes you can do additional downloads to basically have the professional version, thats what i did. Jus changes the installation source in YaST to some of the directories in suse's ftp server (mainly ones called supplementary and yast_source). As of now my system is loaded with fresh installs of kde3.3,apt-get, eclipse,JDK2,fluxbox,etc..

One DVD has everything on the 5 CDs and nothing more. The other is for 64 bit.

Just buy the PRO CDs from www.linuxcd.org