Hi - thanks for that... I'll look into those options. Mike p.s. The ISS should be well visible tonight
Time: Wed Nov 05 8:52 PM, Visible: 6 min, Max Height: 79 degrees, Appears: NW, Disappears: SE On 05/11/14 11:31, Trent W. Buck wrote: > Mike <[email protected]> writes: > >> SUSE Linux next version is about to be released and my broadband >> allocation has plenty left to do this - but the SUSE release occurs >> just after the broadband expiration. So I will have to wait, with a >> large balance, until tomorrow - baah > Or get an ISP that provides an unmetered mirror? > > $ rsync mirror.internode.on.net:: | grep -i suse > opensuse OpenSuse > > Or download the equivalent of Debian's mini.iso (~20MB) then only > download the packages you actually use, rather than gigabytes of DVD? > > (To be fair, last time I looked the closest equivalent to mini.iso that > CentOS had was about 200MB of ext2, and I guess SUSE is the same.) > > At a glance, the magic appears to be in here (320MB total): > > > mirror.internode.on.net::opensuse/distribution/openSUSE-current/repo/oss/boot/x86_64/ > > Doesn't look like they prepare turnkey mini.isos, though :-/ > And it looks like they use YaST2, not anaconda, so I can't help much. > > I got this far before losing interest; > you'll probably need to consult the docs. > > qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel loader/linux \ > -initrd loader/initrd \ > -append 'splash=silent showopts edd=off' > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
