Hello im rather new here and rather new to the linux community i want to ask a question i have some problems booting opensuse cause its a rather big file and i see the pack has 4.7 gb and bellow is KDE and GNOME and the rest…my question is if i put GNOME i can stil update to all those softwares included there ? in that big pack or(4.7) ? or the file is 4.7 because it contains bot files for KDE and GNOME
First off, a BIG HELLO and a Merry Christmas there sickbastard. Very interesting name, I hope it is not contagious. lol!
Anyway, the 4.7 GB DVD has much more software loading options, but you can get it all online if you like. If time moves very slowly for you during downloads, why not pick up a LiveCD instead. There are both Gnome and KDE versions (I prefer KDE myself) which are much smaller. These disks let you try out openSUSE first and make sure that it works. You can install from the same disk, but you are somewhat limited during the install, but you can get anything you want online and there is nothing wrong with doing it that way.
software.opensuse.org: Download openSUSE 11.3
Thank You,
It contains both and a couple more “Desktop Environments” too IIRC. And after you install one, you can pick applications that come from the other if you like (when you’re a bit more experienced). I have KDE but with many Gnome apps that I included later on.
BTW, welcome here and we hope you have a great experience with Linux.
Welcome here.
If I understand well, you want to install by starting the downloaded 4.7GB iso file. No can do. You have to ‘burn the image(iso file) to DVD-disk’ and boot your computer from it. So, don’t put the iso file on a DVD datadisk, use a ‘Burn image to disk’ option in your burner software.
Merry X-mass to all of you hope santa is gonna give you what u love and dream every night my question is the live gnome is like the 4.7 gb thing the problem is i have to download what i want or stuff like that ? cause here where i live the 8 gb dvd’s ar so frkin expensive almost 20 bucks for like 2 and the normal one for 4.2 lol are like 2 bucks…and now im using w7 tried to boot with usb …neah no luck… so eventualy i wont lack of missing files or something like that i could always download them on the internet right ?
The official openSUSE-.isos are fitting on a regular 4.7GB DVD, but anyway: yes, any software needed can be installed via repositories right after the initial install, so you may also use the GNOME CD-image.
Our dvd’s here are 4.2 or 8.6…i didnt saw anything for 4.7
4.2GB, are you sure? This is what →Wikipedia says:
Capacity
4.7 GB (single-sided, single-layer – common)
8.5-8.7 GB (single-sided, double-layer)
9.4 GB (double-sided, single-layer)
17.08 GB (double-sided, double-layer – rare)
A more extensive chart on possible DVD capacieties can be found →here. Obviously 4.2GB DVDs do not exist.
On 2010-12-23 23:36, sickbastard wrote:
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> Our dvd’s here are 4.2 or 8.6…i didnt saw anything for 4.7
As everywhere. It is 4.7 GB or about 4.2 GiB. Learn units 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
As everywhere. It is 4.7 GB or about 4.2 GiB.
Slightly more: 4.7GB is 4.37GiB. As I said, there are no 4.2 GwhateverB DVDs.
Just for the record. 
Jonathan_R, I don’t quite get the relevance of the Wikipedia link you posted. What do I miss here?
yes there are 4.2 and yes i found 4.7 today it was on other supermarket the other one didn’t have that size thx anyway il try it out
Welcome to our comunity. Of course you can update all those software which included there. I have KDE graphics interface but I have many gnome applications. All these applications run correctly and without problems.
On 2010-12-24 12:06, sickbastard wrote:
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> yes there are 4.2 and yes i found 4.7 today it was on other supermarket
> the other one didn’t have that size thx anyway il try it out
Sigh… I guess you understood nothing.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
Al is well that ends well… but if you are planning on going Gnome only, you could always have downloaded the LiveCD version and burnt to CD… cheaper… ok, not that a blank DVD is expensive 
Regards
Neil
What???:
Maybe you understood nothing. 4,7 gb supermarket???:\
+1 for awesome communication 
Neil
+1 for awesome communication
Neil
That is communication Hahaha!!!rotfl!