Re: LINUX Workstations

On Thursday 02 October 2003 23:08, R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 6:02 PM
> Subject: RE: LINUX Workstations
>
> > I'm not trying to be flip here, but these instructions are a little
> > beyond the "stick in a disk" installation of Windows.  Even a phrase
> > as simple as "Just create the boot diskette" makes several
> > assumptions about the skill level of the user.
>
> True, but if you can read a README file in the DOSUTILS directory and
> you can download things like eclipse, then you can download and run
> rawrite against the .img files and create the diskettes...

and don't forget there's a boot.iso CD image there too - makes life a bit 
easier. I use this method to install it, having downloaded the SuSE ftp 
directory & contents first (all 6.6Gb). It was very easy - burn CD, boot 
from CD and follow a graphical prompt. 

Regards, Martin
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