Carlos E. R. composed on 2018-02-20 00:29 (UTC+0100):
Felix Miata wrote:
The installer devs wanted the initial package screen to be kept as simple as possible, so basic X got moved to the screen that follows selection of the 4th option, "Custom". There it's called "X Window System", which provides IceWM from the XDM login manager. That same screen also offers XFCE, LXDE, LXQt, Enlightenment and Mate, in addition to re-offering Gnome and KDE, and offering a wealth of other patterns, such as print server, file server, development, laptop and Xen.
Well, XFCE was not there, I'm sure of that. Without network it is not there. I will try to see if the "minimal X" is there.
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Confirmed, no Internet; with Custom the software selection window has a "X window system" pattern. It includes icewm-default.
Also confirmed that XFCE is not there.
I tried with the "openSUSE-Leap-15.0-DVD-x86_64-Build129.1-Media.iso" media on a VM, host only network. I did not complete the install, aborted.
I was looking at the "Software Selection and System Tasks" screen in an in process TW20180218 installation as I wrote. Did you select any other pattern, or go into the details screen to make selections? What exactly do you mean by "not there"? It clearly was there among other DEs on the screen I was looking at. Next two things I did were click the details button, then deselect recommends, after which I made a lot of taboos and selections, both patterns and individual packages, none of which included XFCE. I do know from previous experience with the 4 item "Computer Role" screen installers that with recommends disabled, practically nothing installs, no YaST2, no Xorg, no console tools, and others, among which zypper, unless enough of the right patterns and packages are selected to get enough deps to get such things to install in a useful state. It didn't boot. No initrd was created, and chrooting to it seemed to be broken[1] (dracut seeking the modules for the running instead of the newly installed 4.15 kernel[2]). mkinitrd -B worked, then first boot came up / readonly. [1] # mount /dev/hdxy /mnt # mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc # mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev # chroot /mnt # dracut dracut: Cannot find module directory /lib/modules/4.4.114-42-default/ [2] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1081653 -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org