[NTLUG:Discuss] Novell SuSe DVD's...was Re: O'Reilly Discussion Guidelines

[MadHat]

On Sep 10, 2004, at 10:02 AM, Stephen Davidson wrote:
> MadHat wrote:
>> Only one if the DVDs is bootable.  The others have ISOs you have to 
>> burn to use them. So not only do you need a DVD drive, you need a CD 
>> burner.  Yes you can just mount the CD ISO to get to some of the 
>> data, but not if you want to boot off of one.
>>
>> So I got 1a, 1b and 1c.
>>
>> - 1c is the SuSE 9.1 Pro and is bootable, easy install
>> - 1b is SuSE 8.2 Pro and Ximian Desktop 2, with 6 ISOs total.  You 
>> can't install from the DVD.
>> - 1a is SuSE 8 Enterprise, RedCarpet 2, GroupWise 6.5, and some other 
>> stuff and they are all ISOs.
>>
>> The licensing is the same as downloading.  There is no support unless 
>> you buy a license.
>>
>> Check the readme on 1a or 1b for details about what each DVD has.
>>
>>
> ???? I booted and installed SuSE 8.2 Pro from DVD no prob???
> 1a, 1b, 1c?  You must be getting a different set of CDs/DVDs than me.  
> I am not getting any of that!  Confusing.

Must be.  Odd that I have spoken to 3 or 4 others that received the 
same thing I did and you are the first one to say you received 
something different.

Here is the readme that was included with the Novell 2004 Linux 
Resource Kit DVDs.
http://www.unspecific.com/suse_readme.txt