Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

["Rob OpenSuSE" <rob.opensuse.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/1/8 Matt Sealey <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Birger Kollstrand
> <birger.kollstrand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 10. Default media made for USB key as well as DVD.
>
> It actually requires a hell of a lot of setup to get a USB key
> bootable, more than you could possibly do by shipping a file. I guess
> a little Windows installer would be okay that shoved a bootloader on
> there, and copied the NET iso stuff there (or even the full DVD) but
> that kind of defeats the object of perhaps grabbing a clean system and
> installing SUSE from scratch from a USB key. You'd need an existing
> system to do it.. which is the computing equivalent IMO of
> waterboarding.

Aw come on, it's far more sensible to install on a "clean" system,
when you've got another near by, that you can check up on things,
and/or do something useful rather than watch those installer info
screens.  I think the only time I actually was preoccupied by an
install, was with COL2 in 1999, which actually invited you to play
ksirtet, whilst it did the work in a rather impressive pipelined
manner.

How many ppl without internet access via another computer, are going
to be fiddling about with USB key, rather than DVD boxset, or a Live
CD or DVD image?
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