Re: gEDA-user: A bleat for SuSE CDs

[Daniel Wisehart <dw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Done.

Regards,
Daniel


On Tuesday 04 October 2005 04:03, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Hi Guys --
>
> Since SuSE has turned out to cause such a problem for the gEDA Suite
> Install CD, I have decided to take one of my spare machines and load
> it up with SuSE 9.3 to create a test platform for this and future
> versions of the gEDA CD.
>
> I am trying to download SuSE 9.3 from the Novell site, but it is very
> slow going and I am not sure I will get a complete, flawless download
> as quickly as I would like. [1]  Also, I would like to get a copy of
> exactly the same distro which seems to fail for people.  (I assume
> it's the free download version from the website, but perhaps the
> corporate  users are using a "physical media" edition?)
>
> Therefore, I would very much appreciate it if somebody reading this
> list could send me a spare SuSE 9.3 install CD set.  Ideally, it
> should be the same install set as was used when creating a system
> on which the gEDA CD fails.  Perhaps one of the corporate users
> has some duplicate disks laying around?  I probably won't return the
> CD (unless you are  located close to me), so don't send me any disks
> you need.  Also, if you do mail me disks, I won't reimburse you --
> please consider it a "donation" to the cause.  Mailing CDs is cheap
> anyway, and supporting free software is worth a couple of bucks,
> right?  :-)
>
> Finally, I probably won't get around to doing the testing for a couple
> of weeks due to more pressing activities, but I will certainly get to
> it within the month.  Therefore, please don't expect instant results.
>
> If you're still game to donate a SuSE CD set to "the cause" even under
> these conditions, please e-mail me at
>
> sdb (__AT__) cloud9 (__DOT__) net
>
> and I will supply you with my mailing addr.  Thank you in advance for
> your support and kindness, and thanks for helping out with gEDA!!!
>
> Stuart
>
> [1]  I am doing the d/l at my day job, and our Internet link can be
> very slow.  Also, I suspect that Novell has the connection on their
> end throttled back so that it's not too easy to get a free CD.