I’m not even to the level of Newb… just for clarification. I work in an IT Dept and need to install this on a pc for one guy to work with a customer. I’ve downloaded the entire 7.2gb’s. However, now I have no idea what to do? That’s too large for either cd or DVD and I can’t find any instructions on how I’m supposed to get this to bootable media.
I’m not incapable of learning, just never used this before and need a little guidance. Any help/links would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Ummm, any specific reason you downloaded 9.1 ? The reason i ask,is, it is no longer supported,so no updates. Also, hardware,etc detection will not be so good for newer hardware etc. Download 11.0, dramatic improvements in all areas
Andy
Apparently the customer that this individual is working with is running 9.1 and therefore he said that he needs 9.1 also.
We have the media here for virtually every other version out there… just not this one. I’d love it if he didn’t need 9.1, but it’s not my decision.
Hi
Burn it to a dual layer DVD… 
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up 17:11, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.28, 0.29
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Anything specific I have to do? Or can I just burn it and make it a bootable DVD?
sorry i am newbie too but can I ask you… what you have in 7.2 GB
did you have bootable iso image?
afaik SuSE (Professional) 9.1 is never ships on dvd(maybe i am wrong)…
maybe it contain simple iso images inside another image? did you look inside of what you have?
in a simple way you could not cut one image to cd’s or 2DVD to install it…
if you have bootable DL DVD iso image with didectory structure inside you could just burn this image and run installation just like vXta 
Hi
You need to make sure you burn as an image (create from an iso image),
as long as your dvd writer supports dual layer and you have the media
you should be fine. Burn it at the slowest speed possible as well.
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openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 17:40, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.05, 0.07
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80
There is a Boot.iso file inside the Boot folder. But when I created a bootable cd with that on it, it just hangs on black screen.
Is there a book “Installing SUSE 9.1 for Idiots”?
Like I say, I’ve never worked with this before, so I’m kind of fumbling around in the dark here.
Is there any reason why you downloaded 9.1? It is very old and no longer supported the latest version is 11 and 11.1 is due soon.
Geoff
Refer to the second post in this thread…
Because it’s the only version we don’t have the media for apparently
Hi
9.3 was a dual layer DVD with both 64/32 bit OS, 32bit was on the CD’s.
My thought was 9.1 was as well?
@keastland was the download an iso image?
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there was a much smaller iso inside the boot folder, but the entire thing is not an iso.
This is what we downloaded:
Hi
So what was the download, just an rsync of a directory?
What is the folder structure, does it have x86_64 directory, noarch
and i386 etc?
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I believe I have the 9.1 cd set somewhere, though I would have to dig it out and I’m not sure how they have survived.
Is a pxeboot possible? Combined with a tftp server hosting the dvd media that would be a simple solution. There is a method of creating a cd set from the dvd which I’m sure can be used to create a dvd set as well. That includes the choice of making just a boot cd that would be used to do a network install.
Is a virtual machine install a possibility?
I have been able to use the boot.iso to create a suse9.1 boot kernel with the files that I downloaded. But the disk that is created is only 23mb and does not contain all 7.35GB of data. So when I start the install it asks for disk 1, but I don’t know how to create the rest of the disks or have all the data on a dl-dvd.
Any suggestions?
There should be an option for network or hard drive install. If I recall correctly that could only be accessed with expert mode. Not sure of this as it has been a long time.
You need to point the installer at the files from the downloaded iso served on a different machine or on the local hard drive. I’ve successfully done tftp, ssh, and hard drive installs. The hard drive install requires that you have the files on the same machine that the system is being installed on. I’ve done that by having two hard drives or by having a partition with the data from the iso.
If you are installing on a recent system, you may need an updated custom kernel with more recent drivers.