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Re: [opensuse-factory] Factory live .iso build
On 13/05/12 04:23, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Sat, 12 May 2012 22:40:31 +1000
Basil Chupin<blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I downloaded the KDE LIVE CD Build #369 from here a couple of hours
ago-

http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/

But don't waste your time - it is as useful as teats on a bull when
it comes to even trying to run as a Live CD.

You don't get the usual GUI menu to select from when it starts up but
get a command line menu (which take a bit of time to work out what it
wants you to type in) and when you do get something to happen you get
error messages,
I get something vaguely similar when installing via a CD or DVD on a
machine with UEFI. Starts with elilo boot and almost always skips the
first couple of pages and goes straight into installation. However, if I
install from flash drive instead, I get no such trouble. This occurred
with M3 and #358. Haven't bothered burning #369 to CD - just used flash
drive.

Interesting. I have a dual-BIOS which has EFI. So you are suggesting that I, and anyone else, should try puttiing the CD onto a flash card and using that? :-) . And why not - I may just try and do that.

I have been wondering how so many people have gone as far as having Milestone #4 installed and not complain about not being able to use, say, the LIVE CD[@]. I thought, "Maybe the LIVE CDs are being developed on an IBM 'Blue Gene' computer for use by people with CRAY computers :-) . Well, I asked a friend about this (he is running Milestone #4) and his response overnight was that he installed 12.1 and then uses "zypper dup" to keep upgrading from Milestone to Milestone. Which I suspect is what the developers are doing and so don't see the problems with the CDs. At least this is my thinking :-) .

[@] On the other hand, is seems that the DVDs don't suffer from this same malady - but then it takes a lot of download time (10+ hours for me) to grab a DVD - and for a Milestone? forget it.

BC

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