On 2014-06-15 16:13 (GMT-0700) Tony Alfrey composed:
It occurs to me that my download problem may be a Comcast problem (they provide my cable access). If the download takes more than an hour, I'm guessing that Comcast cuts my bandwidth and probably screws up the data transfer in the process.
Are you still not using a download app instead of a web browser? Before wasting your time trying to buy anything, download the 200MB or so net install iso, burn it to CD, and do a try install, without trying to add any optional repos until after you have a working installation, and while you're at it, deselect Gnome and KDE and select the third DE option on the choice of three screen. On the screen with a list of patterns, choose the detailed mode, and from there, select only whichever DE(s) you actually want, which IIRC offers KDE3 without needing any optional repos, in addition to LXDE and XFCE, but to get it may require you dig down a little to explicitly check all of the following that you are able to find: kdebase3 kdebase3-SuSE-branding-openSUSE kdebase3-apps kdebase3-kdm kdebase3-runtime kdebase3-session kdebase3-workspace kdelibs3 kdemultimedia3-mixer kdeutils3 - "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org