guesses about problems and solutions. Users asks for more and more friendly installations. now used kernels are so hudge they need more than 3 floppies to boot. 10.1 root image is 70Mo.
this is certainly needed for many users. SUSE must be granted to have a yast version with ncurse UI and nearly all (may be really all) the advantages of the graphical one. this is very good, don't drop it :-) thanks :-) once installed, the console / yast version runs quite well on a mush less demanding system than the one advertised on the box. (-we should have an idea of the true limits to advertise them on the wiki). It seems than the install moment is crucial. If you pass the install, so far so good. so why, and what can be done with the less possible resources? let me try to find some answers. * At install time, we have no idea of what the Hardware is. So we need to test anything, have any possible module at hand. * we can unload unused modules - is this enough? * At some moment of the install, we go from a boot kernel to an install kernel is there some memory lack? * how could we use a better swap * can we run a completely unattended install? no yast at all? In fact, could this be a solution: I know there is an option do do so or nearly, for mass installs. What di I need for a basic install? * langage (facultative - english could do, but localization is good) * / root partition - manually setup. as a first attempt, I don't see any other... ext2 is nice and can easily changed for ext3. we need only to install a console running, reading floppies and hard drive. on such thing, may be IDE is enough (cheap hardware)? basic SCSI if possible. it's not even necessary to have a boot loader if we can boot with grub (floppy grub, slack disk...) I just experiment than having the first cd (and the first cd is probably too much) copied on the hard drive and grub, one can start the install without anyting else. If we could have an experimental system here, we could enhance it. I'm ready to experiment this if one gives me some clues and links thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
