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Bear with me, as I'm not used to the SuSE way of doing things (anymore) -

Did you have to download and burn ISOs to CD-R?  Is there a way to boot 
to just one CD and then do the rest from a local NFS/SMB/FTP server or 
from an Internet source?

I've got my wife's laptop running on Gentoo but things like CDs, Wifi, 
USB, etc. are not managed well (yes, it's because I haven't explicitly 
*set them up* to be managed well - an acknowledged Gentoo bugaboo) and I 
wouldn't mind setting her up with a different distro.

Jeff

Mills, John M. wrote:

>ALErs -
>
>Having re-sized my WinNT partition dramatically (40->10Gby), I decided to
>try Linux installation. I installed SuSe-9.3 from a downloaded CD set ... 
>
>Results were even better than I hoped.
>
>1) No problem setting up my partitions, including 8GBy as Fat32 for mutual
>WinXP and Linux use.
>
>2) No problem identifying the peripherals in my Fry's house-brand laptop.
>
>3) X11 delivers a _better_ display than WinXP on the same machine.
>
>4) SuSe and 'linmodem' correctly identified the low-rent, AC'97 codec-based
>~modem, configured it without complaint, and seem to manage it perfectly!! I
>expected to fight with this, and only gave myself 50-50 odds of _ever_
>having it work from Linux!
>    YIPPEE!
>
>5) Dual WinXP/Linux boot setup through GRUB dropped in and works fine.
>
>6) When the partitioning and installation were done I re-tried
>SystemRescueCD and it worked fine. (What's life without the occasional
>mystery, if it comes out OK at the end?)
>
>It's my first SuSe installation; I doubt it will be my last. So far, I'm
>_definitely_ a happy camper!
>
> - Mills
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