Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Toni Harbaugh-Blackford <teelynn19@xxxxxxx>]

> [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

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Toni Harbaugh-Blackford
Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC)
National Cancer Institute


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