On Friday 14 January 2011 18:24:08 Josef Wolf wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:32:10PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
I'll have to start an installation to tell you exactly where, but I know I disable it every time. It's a tickbox called "Automatic configuration" (or something like that).
I've just started an installation of 11.4M5, and on the 2nd screen that is open to user input ("Installation Mode"), I see a tickbox with description = "Use automatic configuration". It is ticked by default.
I don't get this screen on 11.3. Maybe it depends on installation media? I use openSUSE-11.3-KDE4-LiveCD-i686.iso, since install-cd iso don't seem to exist any more and I have a lot of boxes without DVD drive.
The live environment is a running system, which contains all the files a normal install would have. It just copies the temporary file system to the disk. In the life environment user "Linux" is used. So, if you set your new user all settings for "Linux" are forgotten, including those for NetworkManager. If you set your networking in yast, these settings should be copied along to the installed system. Also in yast, you can set your system-wide proxy configuration. Since the live installer just copies the running live system to disk, there are no advanced options in the installer. I even noticed, if you use a custom partition scheme, it will fail. Didn't spend much attention to this and just used the NET installer instead. Anyway, the bottom line is, if you want to change system settings for the system that will be installed, modify them in your running live environment, like you would do on any running system. After that you can use the installer to copy those files to your new filesystem. User specific settings for "Linux" will be lost. The NET-install CD would be a better alternative if you want more custom settings for your system. If you got a lot of systems to install, and you are worried about bandwidth, you can set up your own repository by copying the DVD to an FTP server in your own network and use that one as an installation source. (The installer will prompt you for the repository address if the connection fails, which it will do if your Internet has to go trough a proxy.) Greetings, Tim Aka Muhlemmer
BTW: Older releases used to offer a shell on virtual terminals. This was convenient in the case of problems. This also don't seem to be available any longer. Why?
I think it's also still there - doesn't Ctrl-Alt-F1 work?
No, they don't. All those Ctrl-Alt-F[1..12] give me, are some statistics and logs. But none of them have a shell running or say something about how to start a shell. (Older releases said something like "press ENTER for shell" or something).
I'll have to try it - I regularly ue the shell for configuring lilo, so I'm sure I would have noticed.
I see a console on 2, 5, 6 and 9.
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