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List:       opensuse-autoinstall
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] [SOLVED] How to select all the DVD / Autoyast ?
From:       Andrew Daugherity <adaugherity () tamu ! edu>
Date:       2012-08-24 16:32:39
Message-ID: 57ED10AF40B31A42B5D540BEEF9448132186F87C () mb03 ! ads ! tamu ! edu
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On Aug 24, 2012, at 7:27 AM, 686f6c6d <686f6c6d@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Dsant <forum@votreservice.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday August 23 2012 14:16:19 686f6c6d wrote:
> > 
> > You're right. The best way was to use PATTERNS like these to get a minimal
> > graphic system. Without, we get a text-only installation, which is usefull
> > too sometimes.
> > 
> > <package>patterns-openSUSE-lxde</package>
> > <package>patterns-openSUSE-xfce</package>
> > <package>patterns-openSUSE-xfce_basis</package>
> > 
> > It works.
> 
> Interesting. I have the opposite problem that I mostly need text-only
> (server) installations and always have to fight quite hard to keep the
> GUI from coming up.
> (Usually -- but this is just from the top of my head and I haven't
> verified it -- it should be enough just to install a minimal
> (patterns-openSUSE-minimal_base or greater) system, and whatever GUI
> package you like, and the GUI should come up.)

For my text-mode SLES 11 installs, I install the patterns "Minimal" and "base".  For \
openSUSE they are called "base" and "enhanced_base" respectively.  (Yes, sles.base != \
opensuse.base, but rather sles.Minimal == opensuse.base and sles.base == \
opensuse.enhanced_base.)  You can get a working system with Minimal but it lacks many \
things you'd expect on a standard UNIX system.  You can of course add "gnome" or \
"kde4" patterns to get the desktop environments (I have a different autoyast profile \
that does just that).  'zypper se -t pattern', 'zypper info -t pattern foo', etc. are \
useful.

Also, I don't know if this is still true, but it was for openSUSE 11.x -- I disabled \
image_installation to greatly speed up installation of my text-mode VMs.  This is my \
openSUSE software section:

  <!-- With image installation on (default), it will install default images
       and then remove all the unwanted stuff (dozens of packages).  Should be
       faster with it off.  -->
  <deploy_image>
    <image_installation config:type="boolean">false</image_installation>
  </deploy_image>
  <software>
    <packages config:type="list">
      <package>findutils-locate</package>
      <package>subversion</package>
      <package>sysstat</package>
    </packages>
    <patterns config:type="list">
      <pattern>enhanced_base</pattern>
      <pattern>base</pattern>
    </patterns>
  </software>

I of course also set runlevel 3 as you mentioned.


Andrew Daugherity
Systems Analyst
Division of Research, Texas A&M University

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