DIY: how to make double-layer install DVD

Check if you have yum installed by typing yum --version in your terminal prompt. If you get something with a version number then you have it installed.

sudo yum install python - should install python.

Likewise, sudo yum install mercurial - should install mercurial.

EDIT-1: In case if you are not comfortable with command line method, open up the package manager and search for both of them and install it that way. My guess is you don't have to download the rpm and install python or mercurial. It should be available with the distro package manager itself.

EDIT-2: If you want to search for a package use - yum search <insert-package-name-here>. If you don't know the full package name you can just use a part of the package name.

Other command is yum whatprovides <package-name>. For more commands refer here and here.

To get rid off the boot image: On other distros the idea is the same -> splash=no in boot kernel commandline or change the picture in /etc/bootsplash or equivalent.

On open suse 11.4 (and probably some earlier versions of suse) you can get rid of that background picture by using Yast on command line as follows:

System -> Boot Loader -> From boot images choose the one already marked -> Edit -> Optional kernel Command line parameters: change -> splash=no after that you have a professional black background as it should be.

To change this tty background picture to something nice:

Find this directory -> /etc/bootsplash/themes/opensuse/images and replace the file with your screen size to something you like. Don't change the file name! Just put something else there with that same name. In same size, of course :)