Dell Inspiron 1100 Install

I recently acquired Suse professional 9.1 on DVD, and now want to install it on my Dell laptop. This may present a problem though because my laptop does not have a DVD drive, just a cd-rw drive. How can I go about installing in this situation? Also, I am a total Linux newb, so please talk to me like a 5th grader.

Part 2: Are there any laptop specific, or dell specific, things that I need to do on the install of Suse 9.1?

3: I have installed this on my desktop (it has a DVD drive), and I noticed that it is pretty sluggish-as far as opening programs-it runs fine once the program starts. Is there any way to speed it up? I upgraded to KDE 3.3 tonight, but it made no difference.

Thanks for any help.

-Ryan

Have you tried the CD's that came with your purchase (5 CD's, 2 (DVD's)? You can change the boot order on your system by pressing F12 when the system first starts and select the option of boot from CD. You should not have to do anything more than choose settings during the install. If you go to google and search for linux and your laptop you will find a few pages with information regarding installation problems. Hope this helps!

Originally posted by JMack@Nov 7 2004, 18:47
Have you tried the CD's that came with your purchase (5 CD's, 2 (DVD's)? You can change the boot order on your system by pressing F12 when the system first starts and select the option of boot from CD. You should not have to do anything more than choose settings during the install. If you go to google and search for linux and your laptop you will find a few pages with information regarding installation problems. Hope this helps!

I'm assuming that he does not have the disks since he stated he "aquired the dvd". Most likely he downloaded a torrent version.

No I have the techincal resource kit from Novell. It only contains dvds. 2 older versions with xanadros and one with 9.1 pro.