Hello friends I am new to world the linux I possess aportatil a Toshiba Portege R100 will not Boot from CD and has no OS and install SUSE11 how can I do to settle with suse Boot Floppy I have a copy on the hard disk partition disk is 40 GB.
I hope your answer thanks
You must surely be able to get it to boot from something other than hard drive. Have you checked the BIOS?
Have a look at Installation - openSUSE. If you have a cd drive and not a dvd, the network install works well.
Unfortunately, because of the modern kernel size, there aren’t many linux versions that fit on a floppy.
If you can’t make the CD work, can the laptop boot from a USB stick?
You could use unetbootin. Some people report it works better if you download SUSE inside unetbootin - in other words install unetbootin to a PC, then pick SUSE in the unetbootin options, and it will download for you.
It is possible to install from an image on a hard drive - there are instructions on the wiki, but I don’t know how up to date they are and I think you’d need to install the bootloader separately - the USB is definitely easier if you can do it that way.
Good luck!