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Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work?

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work?
Date 2025-10-10 09:21 +0200
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On 2025-10-10 03:41, c186282 wrote:
> On 10/9/25 17:45, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 21:25:12 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-10-08 23:06, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Most installers give you some way of switching to a text terminal
>>>> window with a standard shell prompt. Because after all the
>>>> installation volume is running on a full-function Linux kernel,
>>>> after all. This lets you do custom pre-setup (like special
>>>> partitioning) even if the installer itself doesn’t have that level
>>>> of functionality.
>>>
>>> Yes, YaST can run in text mode.
>>
>> Not usually necessary. The GUI installer would be running in a
>> standard GUI session off the installation media, but given you are
>> running a fully-functional regular Linux kernel, the usual CTRL-ALT-Fn
>> keystrokes will work for switching to a text console.
> 
>    Not usually "necessary" - but it was good when
>    you needed it, like for servers with no GUI.
>    (I can just see the newbies falling back out
>    of their chairs - "NO GUI ???!!!" :-)

When using ssh to another system it is useful to run yast inside as 
text. You can also run it graphically by using "ssh -X 
root@system.whatever". At least in a lan it runs fine, dunno over internet.

> 
>    The text version and GUI version were amazingly
>    alike too.
> 
>    Anyway, YAST was the deal-maker for OpenSUSE. Now
>    I'll have no reason to install a fat RPM distro
>    at all anywhere.

That's what I told them, and I got almost insulted.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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  Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-07 14:39 +0100
  Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-07 22:52 +0000
  Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-08 01:35 -0400
    Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-10-08 10:53 +0200
      Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-08 21:06 +0000
        Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-10-09 21:25 +0200
          Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-09 21:45 +0000
            Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-09 21:41 -0400
              Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-10-10 09:21 +0200
                Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-10 13:21 +0000
                Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-10-10 21:15 +0200
                Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-10 21:53 +0000
                Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-11 02:46 -0400
                Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-11 02:38 -0400
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              Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-10-11 22:52 +0200
                Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-11 22:48 +0000
                Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-10-12 02:43 +0200
                Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-12 12:12 +0100
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                Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-14 01:45 -0400
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                Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-10-13 11:55 +0200
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                Re: Lazarus [Was: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work?] c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-19 04:15 -0400
                Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-16 04:36 +0000
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