On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:11:23 -0400, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Jim Henderson
wrote: Well, then, I guess you're stuffed unless the community's willing to put some discs together.
I'm not. Others are. That's we asked for the CDs. I can install via NFS and do. It's for new users that I think this is a need.
Instead of looking for *problems*, why not look for *solutions*?
Sorry, I thought that part of our goal was to help find problems with the distro. If the lack of a CD install medium is considered a problem by some, then that is a problem.
I'd say part of the goal is to not just find *problems*, but to propose *solutions*. And not "gimme a CD-based distro", but to *really* make an effort to solve the problem. If you have some skills (and you seem to, since you do your installs via NFS - presumably you set up the NFS server for this purpose, so you must know *something*), instead of asking "why don't YOU do this?" ask "How can I help make this happen?".
If I know HOW to build the CDs, I would. I don't. That's why we are asking the community WHY they aren't offered, and are asking them to make them available. Personally, I would like to see a 1CD install without openoffice, without Beagle, without compiz, etc. If I know how to build it and make it available I would. I've looked into it, but never managed to firgure it out.
So rather than asking "can you make them available?" ask "how can we - as a community - make them available?". That's a more constructive way and you can get like-minded people to start a conversation rather than just jump on the MeToo wagon.
How about a link to a site on how to build custom cds? That would help me find a solution.
I haven't had a need for a long time. Maybe someone else knows and can provide some info. There may be something on the openSUSE wiki about how the DVDs are built. That might be a place to start - by asking about how the DVD boot process works for the installer, how it determines it has the right media in the drive, and so on. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org