Hello. Dunno if anyone else has brought this up in the past, but I have downloaded the sus 7.3 files from there ftp site, and i'm at a total loss of how to burn over 1 gig worth of random files. An iso would be no problem, but I don't know how to split up the file contents over several cd's, not do I know how to make the cd bootable. Can anyone give me a hand? I'd appreciate the effort. Thanks.

you should've downloaded the iso. Its much easier to burn. if you have cable or dsl then download the iso from http://www.linuxiso.org.

I have downloaded SUSE from version 7.0 to 7.3. Great version of Linux. They state that they do not provide ISO images for their downloadable version. What you have to do is to install the download from a DOS partition. The instructions are as follows: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/tbraza_dosinst.html I found the best way is to copy the entire suse subdirectory from the suse download to your c: drive as c:\suse. Then copy all the non-directory stuff to c:\ and to c:\suse. Then after you create a floppy boot disk (look for rawrite in your download and follow instructions), you can specify the c: drive as the instalation media (usually /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1 source and / as the directory. You can also download an iso image of a "demo" version from: ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/suse/suse/i386/live-eval-7.3/ Burn this image and boot from the CD to install a few support files to the C: drive to run SUSE off of the cdrom to try it. It can come in handy later to use as a emergency boot disk. Have fun Vince

Hello. Thanks for the reply guys, I appreciate the help. Zento, yes I would have downloaded the iso of suse if I could, but I already went to that site and they only have 7.3 in iso format as a trial version, so that's out. Stuck with the ftp files. Vince, thanks for your insight. It sounds quite helpfull actually. I'm using windows 2000 so i'm not sure if rawrite will work, seeing as windows 2000 doesn't have a real version of dos. I'll come up with a solution though when I get home, and try your suggestion. Thanks again.

I recommend Mandrake or Redhat. They both have free full ISO ver. Once you download them, click on the ISO image and adaptek will burn them to your cd. Down load BOTH ISO images and label the correct disc 1, 2 etc... That will save you lots of pain

I've tried both Redhat and Mandrake in the Past. I want to try Suse as well.

I have been in the same situation as mister Zarkov here. I did not come up with any solution, even though i would have some ideas. It would be very nice if someone, who bought the damn thing (suse isos that is), will give as some cd's snaphots so we can build them on our own.