On Thursday 11 October 2007 02:23:47 am Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
The idea is to have only minimum KDE or GNOME system and perform installation from that point.
I did something similar when I was on dialup. Minimal text mode using miniiso, than minimal GUI from running text mode, than KDE base and dependencies, than the rest.
I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve.
A) Make installation pleasant experience 1) for users that bought computer with preinstalled OS and are not used to spend hours installing some software, but they are familiar with windows update that runs in background 2) for users that have slow and not always reliable Internet connection - install minimum usable installation, which is GUI with browser, instant message and email client, and let them play with it. B) Use lesser bandwidth on both sides. With smaller basic system users will download lesser. Jigdo was good idea, but one has to have running system to be able to use it.
Finish the install from the working desktop?
Yes. Installation of software takes time, and that is meant under "finish installation" not configuration of hardware and few essential system services. I described above my workaround for unreliable Internet connection, when I was on dialup. 1) I couldn't keep phone line busy whole day long, 2) I couldn't keep computer on while I wasn't at home.
How to make sure the desktop is really started?
This is actually irrelevant. If GUI is in unusable state, it will be after 2 days or 2 hours of installation. Which one is easier to forget, and give another chance. -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org