On Saturday 01 July 2006 00:21, kroger@princeton.edu
<kroger@princeton.edu> wrote in comp.os.linux.misc:

> Thanks Robert, this is great. I'm confused though because it still
> wants the CDs even though I've added online sources for packages to
> YAST.

In YaST / Installation Source, select the line that points to the CDs
and click on the Enable/Disable button, this will set the first flag on
the line to "Off" and YaST will not ask for the CDs

> Why does it want CDs if I'm just getting Emacs from the online
> source?

Because YaST is looking at a number of different installation sources
and the first one is likely to be the CDs.

> Can I just download the free CD ISOs from opensuse and use
> them?

You can do that, but you can also disable the CD search and only use the
Internet repositories

For comparison, I have the following sources enabled:

HTTP Sources

anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/suse/x86_64/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-GM-Extra
anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/suse/x86_64/10.0/inst-source-extra
packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.0


FTP Sources

ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.0-OSS/inst-source/
ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.0

I also have an ftp mirror of the packman source which is normally
disabled but can be used if the other source is too heavily loaded or
(as happened once before) does not respond for some other reason.


> If I have to buy new CDs that defeats the whole point it would
> seem.....

You definitely do not have to buy the CDs in order to be able to install
software for SUSE

HTH
--
Robert HULL

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