Because it costs money to make a distribution and some of us would like to see a Linux distribution be able to make enough money to hang around. If you've got a fast net connection, just mirror the ftp site, it doesn't take long, or just do an ftp install. Don't copy someone else's CDs because they've got non-free applications on them that aren't included in the ftp distribution and then you're just hurting the nice companies that are writing cool software for Linux. Support your favortie distribution, buy a copy of the CDs (if they sell them) or dontate some money to them from time to time. On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:13, Todd Young wrote: > To my knowledge, SUSE had never offerred their ISO images for download. > Best bet is to find someone who has the CDs (or copies) and offer them > beer or money to copy them. :-) > > Samuel MacDonald wrote: > > No ISO's from SuSE... > > > > Why? > > > > Sam. > > > > Jim Streit wrote: > >> 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 -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe GPG signature at http://mtu.net/~jpschewe/gpg.sig.html For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 _______________________________________________ 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