Bug 104032

Summary:	Standard installation sets should only require CD1
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Haakon Eriksen <haakon>
Component:	Usability	Assignee:	Berthold Gunreben <bg>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Siegfried Olschner <siegfried.olschner>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	adrian.schroeter, aj
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Pro 9.3
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Description Haakon Eriksen 2005-08-11 06:50:09 UTC

I recently downloaded a SuSE Linux 9.3 CD1-iso-file, and tried the minimum
graphical with KDE install selection item. I deselected the packages that
required CD2-CD5, and the installation went fine as the missing packages are
unnecessary for getting a running system. Later I used YaST to get the packages
from a nearby mirror site.

Novell has decided to lauch openSuSE, and one of the things that will be a great
benefit for users considering SuSE is to minimize the need for the rest of the
CDs just to get going. Users coming from other GNU/Linux distributions will
probably not be content with a LiveCD. They have probably already done that, and
now they want to run it installed on their harddrive, so make it easy and
unburden your mirror sites from people downloading complete iso-files.

Comment 1 Andreas Jaeger 2005-08-11 11:54:46 UTC

The problem are the many languages and the way our installation works most
of these files are on CD1.  Since we support both KDE and GNOME - unlike other
distros - we need more than one CD.

you can use our boot ISO.  It's 70 MB and downloads everything from the net, so
this is the way to go IMO.

Comment 2 Andreas Jaeger 2005-08-11 11:55:23 UTC

Berthold, do we describe the installation with the MINI-boot.ISO on the wiki?

This is something we should do...

Comment 3 Berthold Gunreben 2005-08-11 12:03:04 UTC

We have a small section about it in the Download Instructions:

http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Download_Instructions#Installing_SUSE_Linux_Over_the_Network

this does work, if you run the computer in a network with dhcp server. If not,
things become much more complicated, because then you would have to setup all
network parameters manually. Please give me a hint where to start.

Comment 4 Berthold Gunreben 2005-08-11 12:31:48 UTC

I extended the description a bit and hope that this meets the expectations.