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Originally posted here by metguru
I went into YaST control center, and went to the system tab, which gave me the option of making 8 boot floppies, but no CD choice (I didn't know there was a second pannel for admin earlier:rolleyes: ). I really don't want to do this..is there any other optIon?
Yes.... you can use the first CD or the DVD and use it as something to Boot from....
As for the other question, CD one and two are the main ones and the other are mostly just software. If you want to yuo can open them up in Explorer on Windows or another File Manager on Linux and see what is actually there.
But anyway if you don't want Floppys because you'd need more than one as pointed out already, just use the first CD, they have a recovery console and some other things you can use.
Oh by the way, installing on External, the MBR is located on the first HD in your computer, so if you install somethign on removable and expect the MBR not to do some sort of complaining, well it's sort of asking for it.
How big is your HD? The one inside the machine that is? If you're only using it for testing or something you could just make a little 5 or 10 GB partition for SUSE and that way you don't have this huge hassle, and then use the External HD to store all your music and whatever else you have that would take up space and isn't really needed on the HD itself.
I do it with my laptop. The HD is small and so I have a 5 GB Windows XP partition, and then a 25 GB Slackware partition, and when I run out of space, I move it to the External USB HD I have and just use that for when I want to listen to music or watch a ... Full legal movie...
And I store the personal stuff on there so I have it on hand an don't need to put it all on that HD.
Or, you could possibly do like I did with this machine, I added an extra HD into it so I have one for Windows XP and another for SUSE 10.1. HDs are so cheap these days it's an actual option for people more so than a few years ago.
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Thanks, Ill need to think about that, but untill then, there has to be a faster way than the way I was doing it. I would start the setup, which took like 5 minutes to load, then I had to quit, which would take me to that boot menu that would let me boot to the external HD.
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5 minutes???? I installed it on a 433 MHz Celeron with 192 RAM and an 8 MB video card and it took MAYBE a minute and a half... Are you sure there isn't something else going on hardware related?
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I don't know; I stick in the CD, the menu comes up in like 15 seconds, then I click safe setup, because for some reason the others don't even load, and it takes like 5 minutes, mabie even more, it says 'initialising' the whole time, then the setup starts asking me the questions.
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Wow... You have another machine you can test it on? There seems to be something going on there but I'm not sure what as I've never installed in external HDs before...
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No ,the only other machine I have is a Pentium 233Mhz with no USB and a CD drive that doesn't even open.
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Here's something you might want to try: http://www.antionline.com/showthread...linux+cgkanchi
Cheers,
cgkanchi
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Yes, i know that you can use the boot floppies, but SuSE requires 8 floppies.
