Our school concerned about istalling openSUSE instead of Windows. But, with our internet, we cannot download files that are bigger than 200 mb. Installation of openSUSE is single file about 4,18 GB. Can someone split this file into parts about 200mb and upload to some fileserver (rapidshare.com is the best variant, because we have premium account there)? This is very important for us
Why don’t You simply buy an “All inclusive box”, for example at
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Linux Betriebssysteme by edv-buchversand.de | Software online kaufen;
It gives You the media plus printed manuals plus telephone support.
Not too bad an idea for beginners, I think.
Peter
P.S:file is openSUSE-11.2-DVD-i586.iso (http://mirror.suse.ru/distribution/11.2/iso/openSUSE-11.2-DVD-i586.iso one of the mirrors)
Transfer time to Russia is very long, we need it as quick as possible. openSUSE isn’t availiable to buy in our city, that’s the main problem.
As bssmusic says, you will be better off with the boxed set. There are a small number of programs that individually exceed the 200Mb limit you have - texlive being the one that springs to mind - but AFAIK that is on the DVD anyway.
Thx for advice, but boxed set is not a variant. Actually we need bootable ISO file containing openSUSE 11.2 with some included soft, and that’s all. P.S: shipping box to ur region isn’t implemented yet, and that is why we have to use Internet to get this
Can you use a bittorrent client to download? That might work as there are no actual “files” to download.
Or can you use the “Network Install” file? That is only 108 megabytes.
I just looked at rapidshare.com and it only allows a maximum of 10x200 meg files, so that option might not work either. Plus I really don’t want to have to sign up for one of their accounts, I really hate those awful sites that make you register and accept all the blasted advertising.
I could put it on my server for you in 200 meg chunks, but my maximum upload speed is only 50k/sec, and it would take a very long time!
I could possibly send a DVD through the post, no idea how long that would take though (from Germany).
A DVD through the post seems to be the sane option here. I’d also be happy to do that but I live in Australia which is going to take even longer than from Cologne (which shouldn’t take more than a few days to Russia).
lol, sorry, no idea why I thought you were in Russia! Althought the Internet in Aus is on a par with Russia thanks to Telstra and their greedy monopoly! (no offence to Russians intended ;))
You could ask someone to download it for you who is connected through iiNet, they mirror most distros and it would be a “free” download (won’t count toward their quota).
The request comes from Russia…
I would recommend contacting an Russian openSUSE User’s Club on IRC.
They would be much closer to your location.
Please check the following link for people that can mail a DVD to you:
You can get a free DVD mailed to you. Contact several people from the following link:
growbag, if it isn’t hard for you to do it, please upload chunks to your server, i’ll download them as quick as possible(DVD is also ok, if it is handy for you).
I’ve sent request to Russian distributor, but it still don’t answered.
**P.S: **Rapidshare allows to upload more than 10 files of 200 mb…and registration isn’t needed =)
**P.P.S:**Sorry for my incorrect (maybe) English =) Thanks to all for response
You seem to be in hurry. It might be a good advice to you and the school to not rush these things! You should carefully determine which files and programs are vital to the school (education, pupils work, administration), so that it is necessary to make sure these programs work also in OpenSUSE, and if not: which alternatives there are.
Why bother a private person to send a dvd, while you could order one from SUSE, with the inclusion of support? Support that you will need, I might add, if you are going to change from a window-environment to OpenSUSE and doing so for the first time, or with a bunch of people in the staff that perhaps do not have experience with Linux.
Just be careful, okay?
Applications,databases,staff,administrators with expirience are ready and waiting… migration isn’t needed because install will be on clean (no-OS) platforms. With ordering from SUSE…there is some small problem at us…this variant is unacceptable for.
Anyway thx for info