suse intall help

Hi everybody,

I'm trying to install linux suse 10.0 (eval version). this is my first
time installing a linux OS. i've used unix before at university but
have never done something as big as install the whole OS. but i wanted
to find an alternate to windows, so im installing Suse on my PC. Suse,
because, after doing some research i found it is one of the more common

and user friendly distributions out there. ( i could be wrong on this)


anywho, when i boot up the PC to install suse everything works fine. i

choose the language, set the time and choose Gnome. after that i run
into problems at the proposal/overview section. i get an error on the
software section saying 'cannot open c///....../source ERROR:no
proposal' (not excatly that but something like it.) i have gone into
the software section. from what i figured out im suppose to select some

software package. but there are none listed there. i tried 'import'
under 'file' and found some '.sel' files on the cd but whenever i load

one of these, i get an error that it couldn't be loaded and floppy is
now unmounted....


im not sure what software packages (if any) i need and where to get
them from. im doing the installation on a seperate HDD which is blank
and is 40GB (which apparently Yast wants to partition into 2 drives,
which is fine with me.) im doing the installation from the DVD, not the

5 CDs.


any help on what im suppose to do to complete the installation would be

greatly appreciated.


Thanks


~Oz

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