[dundee] OpenSuSE 11.4 Minimal Text install problem

[Robert Ladyman]

This might help those (any) of you installing OpenSuSE 11.4 in minimal mode 
(i.e. for a server), you will probably receive a "an error occurred during 
initrd creation" message (probably with code -3034) towards the end of the 
software installation phase.

This seems to be because of a mkinitrd call with an invalid parameter ("-s"), 
an option provided with the bootsplash stuff (which is NOT required on a 
server). 
Luckily, this was only reported as a problem during development and was marked 
as RESOLVED....only it isn't. 

I've been fighting it in an install all day and have just given up and 
installed a minimal 'X' which I can at least later remove. It does worry me 
though: for this sort of thing to be present right up to RC1 and beyond rather 
implies that nobody bothers to test a 'server-type' install for OpenSuSE. 

Probably time to change distros.


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