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

[Wayne Dahl]

On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 09:45, MadHat wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2004, at 8:27 AM, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 09:12, Stephen Davidson wrote:
> >> Greetings.
> >> I say, "What Resource Kit?  What is a Resource Kit?".  I just get the
> >> packages for the Professional Editions (Pro CDs/DVD(s) whenever a new
> >> one comes out.  Not a Linux Geek like the rest of you guys, so don't
> >> have time to play with everything (though I would like to).  I need
> >> something that I can stick in appropriate Drive Bay, click, and go, 
> >> and
> >> it works.
> >
> > Exactly my view as well.  It's Novell's _evaluation_ kit.  There might
> > be not hard expiration (at least in the original kit), but it is _not_
> > licensed for free use.
> >
> > The SuSE Linux Personal/Professional releases are licensed otherwise.
> 
> It is the same license as the downloaded copy.  It does not come with 
> support, but you can "register" it online.  I am not sure where you 
> read it is "_not_ licensed for free use", but it is the same as what 
> can be downloaded, on most of it anyway, so I am not sure how the 
> licensing is different.  Also I have read all the readme's  and docs 
> included and I could find no such statement as "_not_ licensed for free 
> use".  Can you help me find these details about how it is "_not_ 
> licensed for free use" so I do not use it improperly?

Well, now, this was the question I had about it being an "evaluation
copy".  What exactly does that mean?  I understood it to mean no
support, but the question I had earlier was that after the evaluation
period, does the software expire and shut down as in most commercial
evaluation versions or what?  Does it continue to work, etc?

Also, I never found any "free" version when I was trying to find a
downloadable version.  The only versions of Suse Professional 9.1 were
the paid versions...even when it came to downloading.  Now, I never
TRIED to download it...maybe that's where I went wrong...dunno.  I gave
up on it when I blew up my RH 8.0 box and went with RH 9.0 since I had a
set of CD's burned for it already.  I just blew away the whole box,
repartioned it (which fixed my nearly full / partition) and installed RH
9.0, then recaptured files I had backed up on CD.  I never did get a
good install of FC2.  I have the CD's and even trying to start from
scratch, the install would dump out and the machine would reboot before
the install completed.  I have no idea what was happening...possibly a
corrupt CD or something...have no idea.  It would get quite far in the
install, into the second CD where it was installing packages...and just
dump.  After the third or fourth try, I went with the RH 9.0 I had.  It
works.  

So, does anyone have any advice about upgrade paths from RH 9.0 to FC
2?  Maybe upgrade to FC 1, then FC 2?  Can you go directly from RH 9 to
FC 2?  Or would I be better off staying with RH 9 for now?

Thanks,

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