On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Jim Henderson
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?".
I will agree with that. However, this thread deteriorated really fast because instead of asking that question, everyone wanted to offer a solution that isn't what was requested. CD based installation media. The purpose is to offer that for those who need it, not offer work arounds for experienced users.
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.
Again, I grant that. However, we did ask that in the beginning. Maybe not in that way, but it was requested, not demanded. I added in my support for the need for CD based media.
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.
Then I'll start a new thread asking that. Thanx for a useful suggestion. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org