that kind of defeats the object of perhaps grabbing a clean system and installing SUSE from scratch from a USB key. You'd need an existing system to do it.. which is the computing equivalent IMO of waterboarding.
Aw come on, it's far more sensible to install on a "clean" system, when you've got another near by, that you can check up on things, and/or do something useful rather than watch those installer info screens. I think the only time I actually was preoccupied by an install, was with COL2 in 1999, which actually invited you to play ksirtet, whilst it did the work in a rather impressive pipelined manner.
How many ppl without internet access via another computer, are going to be fiddling about with USB key, rather than DVD boxset, or a Live CD or DVD image?
Ideally most people would have a PC that does everything they need, and now that we live in the world of the iPhone, who needs another PC to browse the web? Ideally PCs would boot from an HTTP URL but I've only ever seen one system that could ever do that (OpenFirmware implementation on the OLPC and the one in development at Genesi :) Maybe EFI will fix it for the rest of the world so installing an OS is as much as typing in "get.opensuse.org" or "go.windows.com" and having it boot something.. security notwithstanding. Mounting repositories over HTTP would be a great idea too. FUSE has suitable filesystems.. that would save the ridiculous notion right now where downloading over the net is a "download, unpack" affair compared to NFS, local repo on a hard disk or .. I'd like to say DVD, but my experience is it always "downloaded" them from CD media before unpacking it. This sort of stuff can double install times. -- Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com> Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org