14 Apr
2004
14 Apr
'04
7:16 p.m.
Eric Dondelinger a écrit :
Hi,
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Brent Frère wrote:
This is right.
If you are looking for a way to remotely install
Suse distribution, I
confirm that (after long researchs) there is no such ressource on the
web, because it is forbidden by the terms of the licence of some
softwares contained in the CDs. No problem to use YOU (YaST On-line
Update), but no ways to install Suse from the web. Sorry.
That's incorrect. You won't get ISOs (at least of the x86 distribution)
because some software there is non-free.
You *can* install via FTP,
without those parts - the free packages are all available on the
SUSE FTP server. There will be less problems for this in the future,
as Novell has decided to GPL yast - of course problems remain for
the proprietary third-party software included with the CDs/DVD.
This is right.
Of course you'll need to boot from floppy and
fetch the packages
from the network, which isn't too practical if you're on analog
or ISDN.
Sorry ? I though we were speaking about an already running Suse 8.1
system. Why should it reboot to install some suplementary software ?
Note that you *can* download ISOs for some other
architectures
(like Sparc, Alpha) - probably those proprietary packages are not
even available for those platforms.
The guy told -if I'm not wrong- that he whished to add some packages to
a Suse 8.1 system. Not update to Suse 9.0.
You should instead try to find a set of Suse8.1
CDs.
No, find a set of SuSE 9.0 (or soon 9.1) CDs/DVDs ;-)
Greets, Eric
My experience was
* I had a friend running a Suse 8.1 system connected to the Internet
* I needed to re-install some packages, but I had a slow Internet
connection, and he didn't had the proper CD.
* I tried to find some Suse 8.1 server on the web to re-install those
packages without having to upload it to his system from mine (too slow).
I didn't found ANY ftp server proposing Suse 8.1 packages, and the ISO
images hosted by Suse didn't solved the problem neither (I don't
remember exactly why). I found however a text explaining why those
packages were removed from some ftp sites: because of Suse licence term.
So, I just tell my experience: to install some Suse 8.1 packages on a
system that has been installed using the commercial CDs, not the FTP ISO
images, you should fetch some Suse 8.1 CDs. I have such if you want. If
you have no access to the computer involved (quite risky, but...), then
you should share those ISO images on a file server having a fast
connection to the Internet.
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