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hello,

since some time i’m watching opensuse,
I installed 10.3 , 11 and now i wanna install 11.1

But now i wanna try something new.
I wanna try the mini cd (network install)

One problem: i can’t find alot of info about it.

The reason why i wanna try it (what i think is diferent, but i can’t find any info that it is):

-Able to chose the packages i install (download), resulting in:
-Less to download, (important now i have ma downlimit of 5 GB)

-Less junk that i don’t need that takes system resources
-More fun when installing lol!

So my question: i’m i totally wrong about this, and if i am, where can i get more info what’s the positive point of it then.

If a network install just downloads everything, then i can’t see whats better about it than the live cd.

greetings, someone who i trying to learn for his exams but keeps thinking about that **** opensuse.

Kbentekik

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The NET install CD downloads only those packages that will be installed of course. However I would recommend you use the LiveCD if you can because you can install multiple times without using up more of your download quota and it contains pretty much what you want for a basic KDE or GNOME (depending on which LiveCD you downloaded) setup. You can still edit the pacakge selection even when installing from LiveCD. At 700MB it won’t break your quota. If you do an Internet install, each time you retry, you re-download all the packages.

BTW The NET install CD is not just for installing over the Internet, but also for install by NFS, FTP, SMB or local disk, if you have the ISO images of the full DVDs. I’ve just finished an install on a couple of computers using this even though I could have used the DVD drive. Just to see how it works.

Here’s a tip for NFS installs: If you don’t intend to use HTTP (over the Internet) to install, but say NFS, the first thing you should do is switch to NFS using F4. Your NFS export machine must export the directories on the DVD, not the ISO image. This can be done on Linux by mounting the ISO image loopback. Similarly if doing SMB installs you need to copy the files off the DVD onto the Windows disk and then export that directory as a share.

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hi again,

thanks for your answer and advise,
however i have a question:

Is it possible to opt out certain packages (programs),
before installing? (live cd)
When installing opensuse 11 i remembred that i didn’t found an option to do that. Maybe i looked over it.

And just for fun: is it possible to not install kde 4.1… but install kde 4.2 immediately (i’m aweare of the unstableness).
That would really be awseomme, no depency errors and so on, but i guess i’m dreaming. >:)

Anyway,

Good weekend

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I think so but it’s been a while since I installed from the LiveCD. In any case, unless you have a small disk, it won’t take up much space. You don’t actually have to run everything that is installed.

A GUI environment costs quite a bit of RAM. A machine with GUI had a footprint of about 250MB. Whereas another where I specified a server text-only install had a footprint of only 25MB. By footprint I mean the memory use after the cache and buffers have been subtracted, the third line of the output of “free”.