David & Max wrote:
>
> I've been wondering, instead of buying a complete distribution, how to
> download the whole Linux distribution from a FTP site such as Redhat's and
> put it on a CD for installation. I just checked out Suse's ftp site and
> found that the whole Suse 6.0 directory is probably bigger than 600MB in
> size, which makes it impossible to make a CD for installation. Do I need
> to download all the stuff under the Suse6.0 directory? If no, what should
> I download so that I can have a successful installation. any pointers?
To download SuSE, you need 2GB for the packages, plus
whatever room that takes to install.
Pointer: Wait until Tuesday when I bring SuSE CD's to
the meeting. The evaluation CD's have more that RedHat's
commercial CD.
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