[disclaimer: this status report does not contain any April Fool's joke]
- openSUSE 11.0 nears beta freeze - many features are taking care of right now, bugfixes are often delayed - factory is in pretty good shape, bootloader saw a fix :) - installation is actively been worked on, automatic configuration in second stage and image base installation should work now. - we switched to lzma payload for rpm last week - we seriously think about dropping the one CD solutions and concentrate on the installable live CDs + providing a live USB stick
Would there be some way to have a live cd work on a non-graphical system? Current installer boot disks have 'gfxboot' in the {iso|sys}linux.cfg, and after installation 'gfxmenu' is added to the grub menu.lst even on a system without a graphical display. In both cases on systems without graphics this causes the menu to NOT be displayed and the default item to always be used *IMMEDIATELY*. Right now I do a network install with a syslinux.cfg that I modify myself - removing the gfxboot item - so that I can see the menu on my non-graphical systems. It would very useful if there were someway to avoid 'gfxboot' for systems that don't have graphics.
This would have some implications I would love to have feedback on: live cds would be i386 and x86_64, the USB stick would be a smaller system to download as compressed i386 disk image. So I would not put office and games on it, but rather some rescue tools and e.g. wireshark. If someone volunteered to create a pattern for that, it would be excellent.
It would be very useful to have an x86_64 usb stick, or a script that can generate one like: mkusbstick --64 --partition= ... Thanks, Toni ------------------------------------------------------------------- Toni Harbaugh-Blackford Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC) National Cancer Institute --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org