When I booted up, and clicked on “Live CD” at the boot screen, it took me to a login page with Linux as the user. After doing a bit of quick research and finding out that it was because my computer had too little RAM (only 512mb) I went into text mode. Getting logged in was easy, but I don’t know how to install the openSUSE 11.1 KDE Live CD now, and haven’t found any other guides on it.
My Computer is a Dell Inspiron B130, with 512mb of RAM and 40gb of storage space.
Never mind, I found an old post from a while back that told me how to do it. Just type in yast and go to miscellaneous, and click on Live CD Install, for anyone having that same problem that I had.
On 12/11/2009 09:36 AM, Hiim wrote:
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> When I booted up, and clicked on “Live CD” at the boot screen, it took
> me to a login page with Linux as the user. After doing a bit of quick
> research and finding out that it was because my computer had too little
> RAM (only 512mb) I went into text mode. Getting logged in was easy, but
> I don’t know how to install the openSUSE 11.1 KDE Live CD now, and
> haven’t found any other guides on it.
Your 512 MB is sufficient as long as you have swap space available. Is
the 40 GB disk only for openSUSE, or must it be shared with other
operating systems? What you do next depends on that answer.
Yep! Thats it. Your replied to your own post while I was walking home from work, so I never saw it in time to reply.
I do not know what openSUSE-11.1 liveCD you are installing, but please note there are many. … There is a list here on this wiki: Live CD - openSUSE
You can chose from the official openSUSE-11.2 KDE-4.3.1, or gnome, or a gnome update, or 11.2 on the lightweight SOAD (which if you have an old PC you may wish to give serious consideration).
or for 11.1 you can choose from the official openSUSE-11.1 KDE-4.13, or gnome, or KDE updates to KDE-4.3.2 or LXDE desktop (which if you have an old PC you may wish to give some serious consideration).
There is also a link to an 11.0 xfce live CD.
Good luck on your openSUSE experience.
I went back to 11.2 once I figured out my wireless problem, and I’m getting tired of how slow it is with KDE, so I’m giving SOAD a try. Except, I’m getting the same problem. And just typing “yast” isn’t doing it. Do you know the command?
Other than that, OpenSUSE has been an awesome distro, and I plan to continue using it.
I suspect you are trying an installation in text?
Simply choose F3 at the SOAD liveCD initial boot screen, and select Text install. The PC will then boot to a text log in. Login as user “linux” (no quotes) with password “soad” (no quotes). Then type “su” (no quotes) and enter password “soad” (no quotes).
Type “yast” (no quotes). Navigate to miscellaneous. There should be an installation option there.
That worked!
Now that I have E17, I am enjoying it. It’s fast!
But because SOAD doesn’t include a lot of the default 11.2 packages, I can’t use b43-fwcutter for my wireless firmware extraction.
So, any ideas on how to install B43-fwcutter from a file?
Congratulations on installing SOAD Enlightenment.
I think you should ask wireless questions on the wireless subforum area of our openSUSE forums, where you are likely to get a far more precise and succinct answer.
While using SOAD I recommend you disable all repositories except OSS, Non-OSS, Update and Packman (and possibly any SOAD/Enlightement specific repos).
Okay, thanks for the advice.
Also, I found an .rpm of the fwcutter, so I’m writing this via my laptop, with E17. So far, so good. The only thing that bugs me (and this is minor) is that on some applications, scrolling with the mouse wheel doesn’t work.