[ale] Suse online package repositories?

[Jim Lynch]

Suse does maintain an official list.  It was automagically loaded into 
yast2 when I installed 9.1 over the weekend.  I have no idea how that 
happened.  I did a network install from a boot CD that I burned from one 
of the Suse sites.  I had to manually load the network device module and 
specify the ip address and path but it went in flawlessly.  I've done it 
3 times now over the last 3 weeks.

I used ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/suse/suse/i386/9.1.

If you do the network install, first nslookup or host or the ip address 
of fp-linux.cc.gatech.edu.  The manual/network install for Suse asked 
for the IP address separate from the path.

Since you've already installed, most of this is unnecessary, but I 
thought I'd document it for anyone else that's interested or happens 
across this page looking for installation instructions for Suse.

Jim.

John Wells wrote:

>Guys,
>
>Had to install Suse 9.1 Professional for my uncle over the weekend.  We
>were converting a machine with an older obscure scsi bus, and Suse and
>Fedora were the only two distros we could find that would work.  He's an
>old Novell guy and a fan, so the Novell/Suse relationship tipped the
>scales in that direction.
>
>I'm not really much of a Suse fan, and like yast even less.  I'm very used
>to using up2date or apt to update systems and install new features.  yast
>offers online software options, but I can't seem to find a list of servers
>that you can add (there are no defaults).
>
>Can anyone point me in the direction of some online package repositories? 
>Does SUSE maintain an official list?
>
>Thanks for the help!
>
>John
>
>
>
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