I agree with this completely, support is very important. However the "tradition" has been to have the ISO's available. I've purchased several editions of several distributions Jon Schewe wrote: >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 >>>>> >>>>> > > > _______________________________________________ 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