Re: OK, where do they hide it? :-)

From: James Knott (james.knott_at_rogers.com)
Date: 02/27/05


Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:23:21 -0500

Tom Horsley wrote:

> I just installed the SUSE 9.2 Professional trial on an old
> computer to check it out. As near as I could tell from the
> obscure installation interface, I told it to install everything
> on the DVD. My system is up and running now, but there is
> no gcc, no emacs, basically no developer tools of any kind.
>
> Where is this stuff hiding? (I can't even build from source
> since there is no gcc at all :-).
>
> How can 3 gigabytes of DVD have so little useful stuff on it?

How much free disk space did you have for the install? I've noticed that if
you don't give it enough, the install will not include some packages.



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