[Lilux-help] suse8.1 yast and ftp help needed

[Eric Dondelinger]

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