On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 05:26:57PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
houghi wrote:
I personaly just hope that there will be a Network instalation CD. Small initial download, download only what you need, works on any bootable CD/DVD.
OK, but only viable when connecting to the network doesn't need much configuration. I still haven't got my ADSL USB modem to work. (Gotta read the accessrunner documentation.) And of course, with good download speeds and big or no download limits. (Here in India, home users still can't afford having a both high-speed line with unlimited downloads. The market is only now starting to grow.)
Indeed. It should also not be the only way of instalation. It is there now and perhaps it needs some tweaking to get other modems running as well. If the choice is downloading several CD's or FTP instalation, with a FTP instalation you would only need to download what you want installed, not the rest.
A 1 CD based openSUSE would also be nice. Easy to distribute and give to friends. :-)
I strongly support this. :)
I also vote that it has KDE 'cause KDE rocks! (Of course, if stuffing both KDE and GNOME on a single CD would be possible, perhaps with some of the less vital packages thrown out, then that would be the appropriate way to do things.)
I'm not sure about this, but I think that even with SuSE Pro 9.3, the first CD of the 5 is sufficient for most basic installs. (Not sure if that will include the office suite, but am conjecturing, based on Novell having given the 1 CD download time etc by the side of the 5 CD download time and DVD download time.)
A great compromise would be that you have the needed stuf on CD1. At least enough to have a running system. Wuth that you should be able to use it as a workstation. If you then want more, you either do an FTP instalation, or download the rest of the CD's, if you like. Even better would be if that CD was able to work live as well (e.g. Knoppix). That way one CD can be used to test and if you like it to install. As almost any other distro is able to get a 1 CD version out, I am sure SUSE is able to do the same. houghi -- Hackers do it with all sorts of characters.