Am Mittwoch, 16. Jan 2019, 21:51:56 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
On Wednesday 2019-01-16 19:58, Takashi Iwai wrote:
2. Extend the current DVD ISO to allow to choose between current official
kernel and this new 4.20 kernel. (I am no developer, I don't know how to do that).
This should be rather easy, and even doable with the current installer. In the online repo setup, you can add your own repo, and just put OBS Kernel:stable repo there. That's all.
But putting it on the install media would make it even easier.
Speaking of which, that is exactly what SUSE 5.3 did. YaST 0.99 would ask whether you wanted a 2.2 or a 2.4 kernel.
Old but gold! Perhaps it's time for a little case of "back to the roots".
From my point of view (again, I am a user, no developer), offering two different kernels in GRUB is for sure the very best way.
The user can decide between the officially used kernel (in this case the install will end up 1:1 as now), or the v4.20 kernel (in this case the kernel and related modules will be the only difference). Appears very handsome to me. Imagine a usual install procedure: You visit somebody, having a suicided Windows computer (Laptop, Desktop, whatever). What happens is: You plug in the USB stick, boot, and it doesn't work. What now? Fiddle around many hours in fron of a user where you explained before the advantages of Linux? This leaves a very bad impression ("What, such complicated it is???"). Finally you pick in best case the whole computer and try to get the OS working on it in your own lab. -> This is for sure a very cost-effective method. You waste many hours with it. When I can choose an alternative kernel in such cases, it will give me at least a second chance to get this install solved. You need to keep in mind that there is for almost sure no Internet available (no second PC) where you try to install. So "everything needed" has to be on the install stick. Therefore a online install thingy is often not really practical (one of the reasons for asking here for an unofficial iso or any other useful solution). Rainer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org