(Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> writes:
1. With previous versions, SuSE has always asked for the CD to be changed remotely during initial installation over NFS, when it needs CD 2/3/... for packages not installed from CD 1.
With 6.3, it said "installation complete" with about 40 packages still to be installed from other CDs, and offered to "reboot installed system". [...]
First of all: I don't like it being done this way. The old method was fine and straightforward. The new method is complicated, and lengthens what is already a pretty prolonged process (see below).
I remember that some previous SuSE behaved like your 6.3 description above (I did not try 6.3 yet). Let me disagree a bit with you. Even if the 6.3 (or oldish) behaviour is surprising indeed, I found it especially useful when the machine mounting the CD-ROM was _really_ remote, that is, not in the same part of the town. Sparing one car trip, back and forth, was well worth some intricacy for me, and I much liked that SuSE tried so hard to mount each CD-ROM only once. I do not think the process is much lenghtened, if you want to be honest. That depends, of course, of how long you scratch your head while steering at the "installation complete" display :-). Once you understand that you may have confidence in the process, I guess things actually go faster. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/