Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Fancy-smanchy installers that don't work? Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:21:24 +0200 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <7dlhrlxmm6.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10c6jov$1sia8$3@dont-email.me> <10c9ad2$3caf5$4@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net hBtbDxl81xfgQd12wVYWtASVzRzM/ald94v+9P+iGf9nI5qOxd X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:981uKvx5vO7fJIwhv1fRX8mY9Fg= sha256:R7mhx67cfJPCgEFjMiw2El/+UfDQ43JsWjnbd+8Xl8A= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:75871 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🇪🇺;