"Mr Jessop" wrote in message
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"Will Dormann" wrote in message
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Mr Jessop wrote:
1. are the extra files outside the iso such as md55ums.asc necessary for
the burn.

An ISO file is a disc image. Any extra files are not necessary.


1.b if not would adding them cause the failed install so early on.

How could you have possibly "added" them? Unless you have burned a CD
that *contains* that ISO file and other stuff. (Why?)

Well without the extra files i the thing didn't work. The extra files
were in the same folder as the iso. such as readme. copyright and the
suse logo as a gif. So i copied and pasted all that next to the iso.



2. Although selecting iso in nero rom what selection did i miss out for
it to suggest that there was no disk in the drive.

Make sure you have the proper CD burner selected before opening the ISO.

I only have the one.

And make sure there is a blank CD in that drive.

Yep. It actually spat it out when the error message came up. So i tried
nero express instead. selected bootable rom. copied the iso to the
'burn' browser. plus all those little files that were in the same folder
as the suse iso.

Did you by chance download the full DVD version of Suse 9.1? If so, it
contains all the full retail apps and is quite large. It all does fit one
DVD, barely. The CD (full install) version took five CDs rather than just
one DVD. I used Nero 6xx and it burned both versions for me fine. One of the
CDs contained the bootable version to play around with that you don't have
to actually install to the HDD. If you are using Nero 5xx version there are
some issues I have heard about, but not really experienced myself. All three
versions worked just fine here with no issues at all. I am not by any means
an expert with linux and have just fooled around with it off and on for
5-6yrs. Suse is a good distro for folks like me.......:-)

Ed