Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (396 mails)

[Stuart Tanner <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I presume that USB or DVD alike, GM will be less than 4.7GB right?

Because otherwise it won't fit on the Retail disk (double layer disk with 
32bit and 64bit on the same medium).

If we need two double layer disks for the retail box that would be crazy..

On Thursday 27 Jan 2011 23:45:48 Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2011/01/27 18:01 (GMT-0500) Eberhard Moenkeberg composed:
> > Roman Bysh wrote:
> > >  If I were to install M6 on another partition. What are the exact
> > >  commands to install it using:
> > >  
> > >  mount -o loop openSUSE-DVD-Build1034-x86_64.iso ?
> >
> > You have to distribute it as a file service (http, ftp, nfs) via network.
> >
> > So it will not work using the same machine - you need a second.
> >
> > Maybe some day the install routines can get enhanced to use a local ISO
> > image - the updater routines already can.
>
> In the mean time, downloading a whole pre-GM DVD ISO is silly if you have
> only one system to install it on. Instead, download only the installation
> kernel and initrd from one of the mirrors, then use Grub to start a HTTP
> installation from your favorite mirror. Then you'll be downloading only
> what you actually need. Use the following as template/guide:
>
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/menu.lst.sam
> http://old-en.opensuse.org/Linuxrc

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