2008/12/17 Birger Kollstrand
I'm wondering if there is a plan for the 11.2 distribution? It's not when it's available but more what Novell want's to achieve with it.
There are several important areas that I would like to help out with: 1. vastly reduced size of the core distro and easy setup for addons. Take out all but core KDE (and Gnome, but I'm a KDE'er so....).
Have you tried the Net Install CD? Even X is optional, whilst the defaults may include stuff like AppAmor that you might not use. The Live CD's are copying over a 'typical' package set, for a simple starting point to those confused by choices.
10. Default media made for USB key as well as DVD.
Why not a LIve USB using Kiwi? It may not have the options of the Net or DVD install, but won't it be "ready to go" for more users.
11. a standard yast module for server setup of net install of machines. This will aid in testing when there is a lot of machine variants to test. Easy restore to original config would be good also.
If you have the DVD image, then you can loop back mount it to /srv/openSuSE just export it via NFS and then boot the net install client. /etc/fstab(5) : /dl/openSuSE/openSUSE-10.3-GM-DVD-i386-iso/openSUSE-10.3-GM-DVD-i386.iso /srv/openSuSE auto loop,ro 0 0 /etc/exports : /srv/OpenSuSE *(ro,root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check) Restoring the config of client machines seems like a rather tall order, given that they could have any distro, Windows, Solaris or BSD on them. Do you mean that you want to boot the client machine, then install into some set configuraton eg) take all defaults or something? Or are you expecting to plan for future testing by having swap, /boot and / partitions avialable? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org