Feature added by: Hylton Conacher (notlyh) Feature #316744, revision 1 Title: Network installtion openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Hylton Conacher (notlyh) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There is no ability to begin an installation of any openSuSe distribution without the need for external media ie CD/DVD, Flash drive, PXR server. I believe the future of new hardware will move to devices without optical drives that may or may not have USB ports. The hardware will however have a network card and either an RJ-45 or wireless connection. I have personally seen Netbooks released in 2012 that had no optical drive, 1/2 USB ports, a RJ45 port and had wireless. Giving these to people who have not experienced computing or possibly do not have the funds for a 5Gb flash-disk, one has to ask how they are going to embrace openSuSe when they get tired of Windows Starter. How can a person with such hardware install opensuse when they visit the opensuse website, WITHOUT the use of CLI or other GUI software to make a boot medium? I believe there should be a Java file, as most systems understand Java that a new user could click on. Once this had been clicked the opensuse servers would download a start install script that, when the machine was rebooted would prompt the user, before the existing OS starts, about the ability to begin installing opensuse over a network connection. The first few initial downloads need to be small in size and be used to create a 'virtual machine' of the install that despite many Internet connection disconnects, still manages to resume its download. The user must not need to install VM software first. Once the user has completed the establishment of the 'VM version' of opensuse, the user is requested to agree to add the opensuse VM machine as their new host OS. If the user agrees the machine is rebooted and the user is asked to specify the location of the new install, just in case he might want to dual boot or has just added another partition/disk. The installation goes ahead, downloading from the Internet whatever software it needs, despite possible interruptions in network connectivity. The machine powers itself off and on its next power on the user is greeted by GRUB indicating that he may either boot into opensuse, or if they elected to during the install, boot into their old OS. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316744