13 Apr
2004
13 Apr
'04
7:55 a.m.
Hi,
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Brent Frère wrote:
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.
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.
Note that you *can* download ISOs for some other architectures
(like Sparc, Alpha) - probably those proprietary packages are not
even available for those platforms.
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