Hi Marcel.
Good to hear from you again. I see you survived the bad weather and the
fludding and stuff :-)
Cheers
Szemir
On July 19, 2004 19:46, Marcel Lecker wrote:
> Hi Folks, Sorry I've been so absent. I get my own connection and place in
> the new month. Yay! in the mean-time .... sigh anyway you'll hear more from
> me then. Miss you guys.
>
> Anyway, you don't even need Red Carpet to update personal. I haven tried
> Red-Carpet, so it might be better, but here's how I did it.
>
> Add an installation source in YaST (under Software) pick a nearby or fast
> ftp mirror. Put the address in like:
> ftp.suse.com
>
> and the directory like so:
> pub/suse/i386/9.1
> (no slashes at the beginning and end)
>
> It'll take a few minutes to check it then it should appear under your
> install sources. If you crave portability and have 9.1 Pro already running,
> you might want to do this anyway. No more fumbling for disks when all you
> want is a shitty little 2 meg app. Just go through YaST and pick your
> package, it'll do the dependency resolution etc and grab everything from
> the mirror. whoo hoo! party time.
>
> Caveat: The only problem I've had with Personal is that you can't seem to
> update KDM to let you pick another desktop other than KDE (not that that's
> usually a problem). I have a low spec box I like to run Blackbox on.
>
> -------snip--8<------------------------------------------------------------
>---
>
> You can now download an iso for personal SuSE from suse.com
> It is quite a hassle but if you install red-carpet after that you can
> download the missing 'pro' and 'server' packages as well...
>
> Peter
>
> bogi wrote:
> >Hi Rob.
> >There will be Suse available, and there will be empty disks available, and
> >most likely there will be a super-burner set-up with 4 simultanius burning
> >dvds and a large disk to store the available isos {this is under
> > construction at the moment, i will tell you when it is ready to go}. and
> > no, you can not download suse. The closest place you can get your hands
> > on a box of suse, that you will be allowd to share and copy to others fir
> > free is at NEXUS, http://www.nexuscomputerbooks.com/
> >
> >I think it is a good choice to start with linux, also it is very good
> > (suse that is) on laptops.
> >
> >Cheers
> >Szemir
> >
> >On July 16, 2004 16:51, Rob S wrote:
> >>Personally, I would prefer a sunday. Would there be suse cd's available?
> >>(By the way, which iso(s) do i download for suse!?!?)
> >>
> >>-Rob
>
> --
>
>
> <warning>
> Micro$oft highly recommends that users with Internet access update their
> software to better protect against viruses and security vulnerabilities.
> The easiest way to do this is to visit the following website: http://
> www.suse.com
> </warning>
>
>
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