On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 09:03 +0800, George Olson wrote:
Hi everyone,
This is just a general question, but I am interested in different points of view. I read about some people installing openSUSE from the live CD, and others installing openSUSE from the install DVD. I have only done installations from the install DVD, whether they were upgrades or clean installs.
So my question is, what is the advantage and why do people do an installation from the live CD? I have used a live CD or a live USB boot stick for various things from time to time (usually testing), so I am very curious as to why someone would want to use that to do an installation. I know there is an installation option on the boot menu.
It just seems that there is just a ton more software available on the install DVD than on the live CD, although of course it would always be possible to set up the repositories and do a full system update. And now with openSUSE 12.2, the installation from the DVD doesn't take more than about 15 minutes, at least on the different machines I have made the installations on.
The install DVD is just a step-in-between. The online repository (no, not the OBS) holds about five times more packages than the DVD. So you can also wonder: why not a single architecture dual-layer, dual-sided DVD that also act as live media... Wasn't that a thread some months ago? hw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org