need help with OpenSuSE 10.0 (no cd/floppy)

[Flatliner]

ive been having trouble installing linux on my laptop through my cd drive, so i decided to try out instlux, which is a version of linux capable of being installed through windows. im using an OpenSuSE 10.0 version of it.

now my problem is: when i get to the install from the hdd selection, it asks me to, "Enter the source directory". has anyone ever installed it this way and knows that that source directory is? ive tried a couple different things like the actual windows pathway C:/blah blah blah. im not really sure what this is, anyone know?

[Dooghy]

Unfortunately I haven't done something like this.
But what sort of problems did you have when installing from your cd drive? Can you post more details about this?

[Flatliner]

it seems to hang up while detecting hardware for the cd drive or just after in just about every distro ive tried. this problem has stumped me for 3 or 4 days now. ive tried everywhere and no one has any answers lol.

[scrarfussi]

By the way what kind of laptop is it it might be the hardware on your laptop suse not recognising your hardware thats why it hangs i hav that problem with ubuntu on my pc what you could do is try a live distro like slax or knoppix on your laptop c if they run

[Dooghy]

When installing, what option have you used? Have you tried other options like installing with ACPI off?
If you haven't and if you've tried to install by using the first option only, then try the others options too.