Hello
I’ve never done this before, but I need to do it to help two people who live far away from me (150 and 300 km).
Could you tell me if it’s possible to install OpenSUSE Tumbleweed remotely, what tools I need to install on my computer, and how to use them?
The installation needs to be done on two laptops: one with 4 GB of RAM and a 250 GB hard drive, and the other with 8 GB of RAM and a 500 GB hard drive.
Neither has an SSD.
Thank you in advance
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If you have never done this before, I would recommend you don’t, get the computers sent to you?
That is a bit small, but it may depend on the DE you want to provide.
These people need their computers (for job searches, training, etc.), and I don’t trust the shipping services (damage, theft, loss, etc.).
Are you advising me against doing this because it’s too complicated, or is there another reason?
I would install Mate on this laptop
I would wait for others to advice about the 4 GB.
And is the disk size also very small?
@hcvv I run GNOME and Hyprland on 4GB no issues at all, Hyprland runs on a 32GB storage device 
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@Zlinux1 I suggest creating two Tumbleweed Rescue USB devices (It runs XFCE4) and send those for the users to a) see if they can boot and b) hardware requirements for the likes of wifi, ethernet etc and to see what works and doesn’t.
You do realize that you can in fact create your own images on the openSUSE Build service which you could test and then send for install?
Yes, unfortunately
Creating these USB drives isn’t a problem in itself, but the users I’m sending them to are still very new to Linux (even more so than I am).
Apart from using the mouse, they’ll have a really hard time: one uses MATE, the other uses KDE.
They’ve never seen Xfce.
Sending them these drives and asking them to perform these steps will discourage them.
To address your last paragraph, no, I didn’t know that existed: I come from PCLinuxOS and still have a lot to learn about OpenSUSE.
So I’ll just drop my idea, and when they come to visit me, I’ll tell them to bring their own equipment.
Thanks for your comments and advice
@Zlinux1 … is the reason to install openSUSE on the two laptops to:
No, just troubleshooting in case of problems caused by updates, helping with LibreOffice Calc, etc.
For now, these two laptops only have PCLinuxOS, which I installed myself six months ago. There is no UEFI on these computers.
Yes, I plan to teach them (with a lot of patience for one of them) the basics of using a computer and show them what the open-source world can do.
Thanks for providing the “why” 
So, just a suggestion. This might be easier and quicker to move forward with troubleshooting and tutoring (until openSUSE is installed).
Your clients | friends could install a graphical “remote access software” application such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer, RustDesk, etc.
Those tools (and other remote software) will allow you to access and control those PCLinuxOS’s graphically, as if you were sitting there using their PC.
No, these two users did not update their systems in a timely manner and are now unable to access their repositories.
In addition, they were using Synaptics, which has now been discontinued and replaced by DNF in PCLinuxOS.
It is impossible to install dnf-package-manager and its libraries by downloading them separately because none of the dependencies are met.
That is why I want to replace PCLinuxOS with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
I will have the same system as them.
On my PC, I’ve installed TeamViewer (which is easy to use but won’t generate a password for me) and Remmina (which seems more complicated to me and which I’ve never used).
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