Joseph M. Gaffney wrote: > On Wednesday 15 February 2006 13:18, jdd wrote: >>> Joseph M. Gaffney wrote: >>> You can't have a single distro that does everything >> why not :-). > > Because it isn't practical. Look at Debian... its stable, works on a variety > of platforms.... and development is racing along at the speed of a turtle > with 3 broken legs.
Debian is the opposite side :-). I run also a gentoo on an HPPA computer - terrible (more than 15 days and kde not yet compiled :-) - > Rewrite... no. A decent amount of effort, sure. As I mentioned, you could > lighten the install process by modifying and releasing a "light" SUSE 10, > replacing YaST (at installation) with one of the other installers available. > Maybe you'd remove KDE and GNOME, and have XFCE, or even Ratpoison. > Whatever. but there, why not, if there no other choice. there are other flavors of opensuse on the wiki, why not this one. But of course I won't do this alone, so if no other solution if found, will see > An updated installer that detects a great number more hardware types, larger > images to be copied, a more complete and usable "expert" options, etc, etc, well, at least usefull notes. hardware: as stated in an other post, for a minimal install we need only grub (on floppy) and hard drive access For ide drives it's very easy. nearly any video card runs console... don't forget it's only the first bootable install that need to be achieved at this point. large images? don't see what. expert options ? any small disk allows me to make fdisk works and it's enough. > And I have an AMD 800 with (now) 256mb ram, running 10.0 beautifully. So > whats the problem? if things goes this way, it may not run 10.1 (9.3 asked 128Mo, 10.0 256, 10.1?) (hope it's not :-))) don't flame :-) > I really don't see the problem here - the hardware you're talking about isn't > "older" or "aging", its honestly damn near ancient. what is the matter? this harware is perfectly working, even with kde if you are not to in a hurry, even openoffice!! (not that I recommend that) ands it's free, why trow it only for an install problem. well. the problem is now well defined. we must seek for solutions. I would be very gratefull to the yast team if somebody could say what changes in the new yast gives problems; not so long time ago we had yast and yast2 why not a yast and yast3 for the new things? could a very simple subset for minimal install be given to the community. In short, is it possible for a very casual programmer to take yast source and compile a simplified one or is this completely impossible? 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]
