Feature changed by: Per Jessen (pjessen) Feature #313289, revision 3 Title: Configuration of common options during installation openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Christian Spaan (gyges88) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: When installing openSUSE there is usually little to do once you've set up basic options like time zone and keyboard layout - apart from waiting and watching the slide show. While this is nice for newbies, it might be sort of a waste of time for experienced users. So why not add the possibility to configure common options that had to be set after installation at many different places otherwise? So here is an initial list of potential things to configure during installation: 1. Wallpaper 2. KDE theme 3. KDE Menu Style 4. Additional time zone 5. Numlock activated/deactivated at startup 6. Install proprietary stuff: drivers, codecs, fonts 7. Network: ifup vs. network manager 8. NTFS rw for any user 9. Bootloader configuration (especially startup order for dual boot/multi boot setups) This feature might be useful for every user who wants to customize or configure the system according to his needs. Discussion: #1: Valentin Moon (-moon-) (2012-03-04 23:24:25) You're right. That's a good idea but, then, what about the newbies? Maybe the installer can ask : << Level of configuration wanted?>> • Newbie • Expert Because ask to a new user, maybe from Windo**, to choose between ifup or network manager can confuse them, no? And maybe some lazy users wants to let the installer do this actions. Choice is one of the advantages of Linux. We should continue in this way (the way of asking the user and have a bunch of options). Just my opinion. Maybe it's exactly what you want to do and I don't really understand your point yet :p PS : Sry for my english. + #2: Per Jessen (pjessen) (2012-03-05 11:41:41) + I think autoyast will help you with quite a bit of this. I don't know + if it's possible to do a semi-automatic installation with only some + settings preset. See e.g. http://www.suse.de/~ug/AutoYaST_FAQ.html -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313289