[opensuse-factory] Proposal or Request to remove openSUSE13_1_LOCAL.exe from the install media.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The installation DVD contains these files: openSUSE13_1_LOCAL.exe openSUSE13_1_NET.exe autorun.inf People popping the DVD on a Windows machine will run that file, automatically, and try to install openSUSE that way. It does not work: ever, AFAIK. It is not documented anywhere. No mention of it in the startup guide or reference book, or I have not seen it. People now and then come to the forums, disappointed that openSUSE does not work, until we find out that they are trying to install "The Windows Way". Immediately and abruptly we tell them not to use an unsupported, obsolete, method that does not work and nobody knows anything about it. To boot the DVD and use the supported and documented method instead. Proposal: a) · That the procedure is explicitly and clearly documented in our books. · That somebody steps up and support, hand holding as necessary, the newcomers that try this method. · That a method to contact that/those person(s) is clearly published. · That there a readme file about this method is included in the install media. b) · Lacking any of the above (a), the installation .exe files and autorun.inf be completely removed from our install media. (Excuse my harshness if you feel that way. No impoliteness was intended). - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlMsGYAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V1xgCfSPsXt/SCA3R7EqkgJCPBdmw8 GzYAn0QNeR05gzssPZYoifRpVtzXDYaS =43Wf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On 21.03.2014 11:50, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
The installation DVD contains these files:
openSUSE13_1_LOCAL.exe openSUSE13_1_NET.exe autorun.inf
People popping the DVD on a Windows machine will run that file, automatically, and try to install openSUSE that way.
It does not work: ever, AFAIK.
It used to work, but it's correct that it's pretty unmaintained - not even the wiki page was moved from http://old-en.opensuse.org/Instlux The problem is most likely that windows changed since the good old Windows XP days :) Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-03-21 13:24, Stephan Kulow wrote:
The problem is most likely that windows changed since the good old Windows XP days :)
Indeed! :-) Not forgetting UEFI... :-? - From http://old-en.opensuse.org/Instlux I got a link to http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.html. From there I got a link to sourceforge, here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/instlux/. At the "news" tab there, it says: +++··························· instlux is part of the openSUSE project instlux became part of the openSUSE project with the 10.3 public release of openSUSE. The instlux project will no longer be mantained here, but at the openSUSE community, which is a big community and I am very proud of contributing the project to it. So, from now on: homepage: http://en.opensuse.org/Instlux bug traquer: http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports support (forums, mailing lists, etc.): http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate... read more Posted by jordi_massaguer_pla 2008-03-05 ···························++- Obviously, that information is obsolete and now incorrect. The last donwload file at sourceforge is, apparently, from 2007. Supposedly, it is somewhere on openSUSE server instead. OBS? Mmm, yes, it is there: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?project=openSUSE%3A13.1&package=instlux Well, if there are people that are creating the package, and according to its changelog, doing things on it, those people should make sure that the thing is at least documented properly! At least on the forums, the instant someone says he tried to install that way and failed, asking for help, we tell him to dump that method and boot the media instead. The last one: http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=496387 - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlMsT9QACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XSjwCfdzcvrfu5DU1poDws6HC9+Nr2 L+wAnjIZ8XfsGAZ7FYbYu1/hEmpPtpIk =6loK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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Carlos E. R. -
Stephan Kulow