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Roger: Many thanks my friend.
This time I got it okay:
ab648822abbd89906adb66f7cddd6bc2 SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso
Now, to get myself a DVD to burn it to...

Roger notes that a lot of packages seem to be absent from the FTP DVD compared with the boxed DVD - the image size if less than half that of the boxed copy. Boo! Anyone who would like to donate me a boxed copy of 9.2 (upgrade edition is fine - save the trees!) would make me very grateful.

Left the DVD image of 9.2 downloading overnight, came into the study this morning to find the download had failed when nearly finished. Not a problem, I just restarted wget with it set to resume. The FTP server didn't like this, and just RESTARTED the download at zero! Not happy.

We're down in St. Albans today for a conference organised by the diocese for it's current ministry candidates, so I'll leave it downloading again while we're at that, hopefully I'll get more success from a different mirror. (For some reason, the Mirror Service doesn't have the DVD image...