Reply #7: Basic install .. [View All]

[RoyGBiv]

Depends on what you mean by basic. :-)

The default SuSE install requires more than one of the discs because of all the packages it installs. The default is right at 2 Gigs and includes a lot of stuff, everything from SAMBA to Apache to ... Rather huge. IIRC, all the important packages are on the first disc, so if you just want to get it in and get it running a skeleton install, I think the 1st CD will do you, maybe the first 2. I believe the latter two discs deal mostly with language and development support files and packages.

I haven't actually done this, so take my advice with a grain of salt. I'm just repeating what I've read on the forums.