On Wednesday 17 November 2004 09:54 pm, Dave Hull wrote:
I haven't tried SuSE... yet, but this is interesting. Is there no way to do a command-line only install with no X system? If so, does the package management system use ncurses or something or similar?
Yes, there's a pseudo-graphics mode, but you have to step through all the menus, there's no way to say "yast2 install <package>" (docs claim you can, but it doesn't work). Also no way to save excluded packages.
If it's really not possible to have a text based SuSE install, then I probably won't bother trying it out. I prefer to keep my servers lean and mean. The less crap I can install on a box the better.
SuSE tends to keep it's server-targeted distro's two or three versions behind it's desktop (though both can contain the same packages).
I wouldn't recommend it for a server, but right now I don't know what I _would_ recommend.