Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-03 Thread Francis Giannaros
On Friday 02 June 2006 20:16, Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:08:48PM -0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > If Ubuntu Dapper & Knoppix solved that issue - I *really* wish the > > same for SUSE 10.2. > > Our Promo DVD offers Live + Install. Don't know if we have it ready yet. I've b

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-02 Thread houghi
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 09:16:29PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:08:48PM -0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > If Ubuntu Dapper & Knoppix solved that issue - I *really* wish the > > same for SUSE 10.2. > > Our Promo DVD offers Live + Install. Don't know if we have it ready

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:08:48PM -0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > If Ubuntu Dapper & Knoppix solved that issue - I *really* wish the > same for SUSE 10.2. Our Promo DVD offers Live + Install. Don't know if we have it ready yet. Ciao, Marcus --

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Alexey Eremenko
If Ubuntu Dapper & Knoppix solved that issue - I *really* wish the same for SUSE 10.2. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Terje J. Hanssen
As an addon tip to this thread: I prefered to download and install the whole SuSE 10.1 DVD (3.5 GB), because my previous bad experience with all too slow download speed trying Internet installation during the beta period. I've also downloaded the Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.0.6 beta DVD iso (2.5GB), wh

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Manfred Tremmel
Am Freitag, 2. Juni 2006 14:15 schrieb Alexey Eremenko: > 3) make a single compressed image that contains all software (like > Knoppix) that can also be installable. When the rpm database is included, it would be the same as a basic installation, software could be uninstalled and updated like in

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Alexey Eremenko
On 6/2/06, jdd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Francis Giannaros wrote: > That version has an option to install? (doesn't say that there). In fact, I had always the feeling that the 10.0 live was installable, but there was then so many options (eval...) that I may be wrong :-( sorry jdd The curre

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-02 Thread jdd
Francis Giannaros wrote: That version has an option to install? (doesn't say that there). In fact, I had always the feeling that the 10.0 live was installable, but there was then so many options (eval...) that I may be wrong :-( sorry jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Francis Giannaros
On Friday 02 June 2006 12:42, jdd wrote: > seems like the live dvd used to be installable: > > http://www.novell.com/products/suselinux/downloads/ftp/mirrors_isos.html > > is that nor more the case? what was the reason to change that? > > thanks > jdd That version has an option to install? (doesn'

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Andreas Hanke
Hi, Alexey Eremenko schrieb: > 2) Better yet - develop some kind of technology that can take > installed RPMs and convert them back to installtion RPMs. This technology already exists (rpm --repackage option). Andreas Hanke - T

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Alexey Eremenko
On 6/2/06, Marcus Rueckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006-06-02 13:29:02 +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > LiveDVD works but - poorly - I'm not satisfied with it. > > 1) UnionFS will enable us, users - to install software even when > running from ROM media - such as a DVD-ROM. that sounds stup

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-02 Thread jdd
seems like the live dvd used to be installable: http://www.novell.com/products/suselinux/downloads/ftp/mirrors_isos.html is that nor more the case? what was the reason to change that? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net h

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2006-06-02 13:29:02 +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > LiveDVD works but - poorly - I'm not satisfied with it. > > 1) UnionFS will enable us, users - to install software even when > running from ROM media - such as a DVD-ROM. that sounds stupid. unless you have tons of ram to waste. :) > 2) I do

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Alexey Eremenko
the livedvd seems to work no? why do you think it is bad? can you give facts? so far i would say: "because unionFS sounds leet" for proper discussions you should provide reasons for your statements. thanks in advance darix Hi Darix ! LiveDVD works but - poorly - I'm not satisfied with it

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-02 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2006-06-02 04:31:39 -0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > I am *very* interested in creation of such a DVD. (Live+Install) with > UnionFS technology - currently SUSE LiveDVD is extremely bad and does > not include UnionFS. the livedvd seems to work no? why do you think it is bad? can you give facts?

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-06-01 Thread Alexey Eremenko
I am *very* interested in creation of such a DVD. (Live+Install) with UnionFS technology - currently SUSE LiveDVD is extremely bad and does not include UnionFS. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-05-31 Thread Rajko M
Jeremy Figgins wrote: A very useful case would be to check h/w compatibility. I often have family and friends who have very old, very corrupted installations of Win98/WinMe on P2/P3 class hardware. All they want to do is surf the web and write emails - if I could easily check that the h/w is co

Re: [opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-05-31 Thread Jeremy Figgins
A very useful case would be to check h/w compatibility. I often have family and friends who have very old, very corrupted installations of Win98/WinMe on P2/P3 class hardware. All they want to do is surf the web and write emails - if I could easily check that the h/w is compatible and install o

[opensuse] Live Installer DVD

2006-05-31 Thread Francis Giannaros
Seems like these days more distributions are adopting the Live Installer method as an option as a quick-and-easy install. Obviously there are many advantages to this, and some scenarios that it avoids. For example, never tried out Linux and want to try SUSE Linux? Sure, there's a completely pai