On 02/22/2018 11:14 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Thursday, 2018-02-22 at 15:13 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
I can think of some positive answers that seem obvious to me
* Server installation offered from the media, not requiring a different media like other distros
OK.
Another stupid question! (They're a good way to learn.)
Is it not possible to choose what system is installed from a live medium? The fact that it boots to a desktop, not an installer, doesn't somehow prevent that installer from offering a choice of installed systems, does it?
Well... yes, it would be possible, you are right.
In fact, the openSUSE installation DVD is a Live Linux, only that you can not freely interact with the desktop (although it has 3 or 4 text consoles, I miss having an xterm).
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+x and you can have as many as you like https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:YaST_tricks#YaST_Hotkeys You are welcome ;-)
It is a graphical desktop (I forgot which),
IceWM
and it offers a guided install with many complex options for choosing what to install and how.It is very powerful and versatile, a complex product. I guess it might run on top of a "standard" live, but it simply was not designed that way. It might be changed, but is it worth that effort? I doubt it. It would need lots of more ram.
The installer is basically this command of top of that IceWM yast2 installation --fullscreen
The current version also runs in text mode if wanted/needed.
Which is, basically this command in the tty1 yast2 installation --ncurses
It is part of what we SuSE/SUSE/openSUSE users are accustomed to ;-)
The openSUSE Lives that could be installed used a different method. Basically they copied themselves over to the hard disk, no options offered. The last ones were for 13.2, but Tumbleweed also has them, since relatively recently I think.
Cheers. PS.- "basically" means I'm oversimplifying a lot. Things are always more complex under the hood. -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org