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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] Which Distribution do you folks recommend?
From:       "Sebastian J. Bronner" <waschtl () sbronner ! com>
Date:       2002-02-17 20:53:47
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On Thursday 14 February 2002 06:31, James Tappin wrote:
> On Thursday 14 February 2002 16:02, marvin wrote:
> > Bob Ramsey writes:
> > > In defense of SUSE (which I don't use) you can get their entire
> > > distribution for free from their ftp servers (don't know about
> > > mirrors).  So while you are absolutely correct that they don't give out
> > > iso's, they do give away their product.
> >
> > can you download and dd a floppy image to do a ftop install ?
>
> Yes you can, I did so earlier this week. BUT -- you also need to download a
> kernel rpm manually to somewhere and then install it manually as (at least
> on the mirror.ac.uk mirror about 2 days ago) the install couldn't find the
> kernels -- think the ftp site must have MORE kernels than the CD/DVD or at
> least organizes the directories a little differently and yast couldn't
> cope.

This shouldn't be necessary.  I've installed SuSE on two machines a couple 
times this way, and each time it properly downloaded my kernel of choice and 
installed it.
-- 
Sebastian J. Bronner
waschtl@sbronner.com
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