I forgot to mention in the previous message, that it takes about 2 hours to do a install from their FTP server, with cable internet. Your times will vary based on your connection speed. If you have dial-up, I would forget about trying to do it over the internet, it would probably take a day :( I have Suse 8.2 and 9 running a few machines, its a very nice product. And your right, there isn't a folder marked "Installation Tree". What you would want to do is copy all of the folders under .../pub/suse/i386/9.0 Its about 7.3 gigs if you download all of the folders. I skipped the suse/src folder, it had holds the source files, I didn't need them, its about 2.5 gigs in size. The CDROM boot image is named boot.iso and its located in the boot folder. Hope this helps ... > Hello. > I would like to download the latest stable version of Linux from SuSE, > but the directions don't make sense to me. What exact material do I > download from which folder on their Chicago FTP server, and is there > any particular order I am to save it when I burn a CD with the material > (or am I supposed to be able to just download something straight to my > hard drive and boot from that?)? > > It talks about downloading the installation tree, but I don't see > anything marked "Installation Tree", so, what next? > > I know I could just buy the thing, but I would like to get some > proficiency out of this beyond just running Star Office. > > Marc > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list