On Aug 24, 2012, at 7:27 AM, 686f6c6d <686f6c6d@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Dsant
wrote: On Thursday August 23 2012 14:16:19 686f6c6d wrote:
You're right. The best way was to use PATTERNS like these to get a minimal graphic system. Without, we get a text-only installation, which is usefull too sometimes.
<package>patterns-openSUSE-lxde</package> <package>patterns-openSUSE-xfce</package> <package>patterns-openSUSE-xfce_basis</package>
It works.
Interesting. I have the opposite problem that I mostly need text-only (server) installations and always have to fight quite hard to keep the GUI from coming up. (Usually -- but this is just from the top of my head and I haven't verified it -- it should be enough just to install a minimal (patterns-openSUSE-minimal_base or greater) system, and whatever GUI package you like, and the GUI should come up.)
For my text-mode SLES 11 installs, I install the patterns "Minimal" and "base". For openSUSE they are called "base" and "enhanced_base" respectively. (Yes, sles.base != opensuse.base, but rather sles.Minimal == opensuse.base and sles.base == opensuse.enhanced_base.) You can get a working system with Minimal but it lacks many things you'd expect on a standard UNIX system. You can of course add "gnome" or "kde4" patterns to get the desktop environments (I have a different autoyast profile that does just that). 'zypper se -t pattern', 'zypper info -t pattern foo', etc. are useful.
Also, I don't know if this is still true, but it was for openSUSE 11.x -- I disabled image_installation to greatly speed up installation of my text-mode VMs. This is my openSUSE software section:
<!-- With image installation on (default), it will install default images
and then remove all the unwanted stuff (dozens of packages). Should be
faster with it off. -->