On 2018-02-23 13:15, Ancor Gonzalez Sosa wrote:
In fact, the openSUSE installation DVD is a Live Linux, only that you can not freely interact with the desktop (although it has 3 or 4 text consoles, I miss having an xterm).
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+x and you can have as many as you like https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:YaST_tricks#YaST_Hotkeys
You are welcome ;-)
Wonderful! :-)) Thanks, I want to try this :-) (Maybe I was told of this time ago and I forgot - it is not on a help screen, IIRC)
It is a graphical desktop (I forgot which),
IceWM
and it offers a guided install with many complex options for choosing what to install and how.It is very powerful and versatile, a complex product. I guess it might run on top of a "standard" live, but it simply was not designed that way. It might be changed, but is it worth that effort? I doubt it. It would need lots of more ram.
The installer is basically this command of top of that IceWM yast2 installation --fullscreen
Ah
The current version also runs in text mode if wanted/needed.
Which is, basically this command in the tty1 yast2 installation --ncurses
Ah... Interesting. :-)
It is part of what we SuSE/SUSE/openSUSE users are accustomed to ;-)
The openSUSE Lives that could be installed used a different method. Basically they copied themselves over to the hard disk, no options offered. The last ones were for 13.2, but Tumbleweed also has them, since relatively recently I think.
Cheers.
PS.- "basically" means I'm oversimplifying a lot. Things are always more complex under the hood.
Right :-) It's Ok. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)