[ILUG] dd/rawwrite for win2k ? And a new question about SUSE 7.3

[Niall O Broin]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:53:05AM -0000, Wynne, Conor wrote:

> Its on the SUSe cd's. Speaking of SUSE, anyone try SUSE 7.3? 
> 
> I have never been a SUSE fan, but they are European, and thats good
> enuff for me. 
> A couple of very good reviews going around but I know of no-one with
> experience with it. Niall maybe? 

Well, I've only recently updated my notebook and my machine to 7.2 but I'll
have 7.3 shortly so I'll see how it goes. I started using SuSE years ago
because at that time it was the ONLY distribution which had integrated I4L
well because of course ISDN is very well established in Germany. I continue
to use it because of inertia :-) and because I don't think there should be
one uber distribution and because it's European, though of course Mandrake
is too and it's very Red Hat compatible.

> If its as good as I hear (sorry no URL's) I'm off to download all 6
> CD's.

No, you'not, at least, not legally. SuSE haven't mad 7.3 ISOs available.
They've just (http://lwn.net/2001/1122/a/suse-7.3-ftp.php3) made a 7.3 FTP
tree available for those with big pipes (it's 6 GB) but there are no ISOs.

> Incidentally it was the 6 CD's swapping all around the gaf that put me
> off in the first place, but I've a new system to install so... 

7.2 professional was 7 CDs and I've no reason to suppose 7.3 will be any
less. Of course if you buy SuSE you get a DVD + all 7 CDs which makes life
much easier if you have a DVD player (and makes life a total disaster if you
bring the DVD and your DVD-free notebook with you to do some work :-( )
AFAIK RH have now copied the DVD idea.




Niall