Robert, you've been a tremendous help, thank you so much. I can't wait
to get to the lab tto get it going.

Jim



Robert Hull wrote:
> 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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