Free SuSE Downloads

[Calum]

SuSE Evaluation Version

SuSE ftp downloads

So what's the deal? i thought SuSE was the one that you needed to buy because you couldn't get a free download? Am i talking through my arse?

[choasforages]

i think what you have to pay for is the cdrom's. i think that the link you were pointing to invovles installing over a network. i just got done doing that with slackware. there probably is a way to download all the rpms' /*lest thats what i think suse uses for package management*/ and setup up your own nfs, smb, ftp, http server to install, at least you can do that with redhat. but the cdroms are easyer to install, one of my friends dad bought the cd's and thats what they use now. i have heard some good stuff about suse though

edit:
the live version is kinda like demolinux, it doenst' install it like runs off the cd

[ June 13, 2002: Message edited by: choasforages ]

[badkarma]

you can download SuSE for free, however, they don't offer ISO images for download. You can use the ftp version to install over a network which, in most cases, is pretty slow.....

[Calum]

so, am i right in thinking that you must ftp in and download the entire system for every install? or can you download the stuff, then install it on several machines locally. Or create yr own SuSE CDs maybe? sorry, i know i risk sounding dumb but i have no real idea of how they expect it all to function...

[Nobber]

What's never been clear to me is whether it would be OK (licence-wise) for anyone else to provide SuSE ISOs for download. SuSE themselves may not want to provide them, and that's fine, but is there anything stopping anyone else from doing it? (Apart from courtesy to SuSE, that is?)

[choasforages]

nah, don't have to download it all for each install. just download the rpms once. then set up an ftp or nfs server with all the rpms being shared, then in the installer askes for the media, tell it either ftp or nfs, i don't know if suse supports nfs but it should. that way you don't have to download the rpms  from the web each time. you just pull them of your local network. for an idea on how this sortov works, read my thread on the warped slakware install, it should give an idea of the process of setting up nfs, if you don't already know how, instead of nfs'ing a loopback mounted iso image, youll just be sharing a mirror of the rpms,and maybe a few other things. wouldn''t be that hard to do. i hoped that this answered any questions

[TheQuirk]

SuSe lets other people make ISOs and make them public, so other people could download the ISOs.

But OpenBSD doesn't.

[voidmain]

Where can the SuSe x86 ISOs be had?

[TheQuirk]

no one's crazy enough to host them  -- not enough bandwidth. Some guy over at the linuxiso.org forums was looking for hosting to host the ISOs, though, so I guess that's a start...

[voidmain]

I don't understand that since there are plenty of people willing to host the download of RedHat which is downloaded much more. I got the feeling this was a decision by SuSe from everything I've read. I mean SuSe doesn't even offer an x86 ISO download from their own site which tells me they do not want to make it easy on people not wanting to purchase the box set.  Nothing wrong with that, but I'm one less customer they will ever have.  They offer the "Live Preview" ISO, they could just as well offer the real thing.

[Calum]

hey, why can't you just copy the live preview to yr hard disk, make any necessary changes in referencing, install a bootloader and so on, and use that as yr SuSE installation? does it not let you have root access in the live preview or something?

Also, what if i did have SuSE CDs, made isos and hosted them? would they be able to come after me legally? it doesn't seem like it...

[choasforages]

by the way, there is a copyright on the layout of the offical OpenBSD install discs, they did that so people would pay for it.