Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (241 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 18:12 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > Hardware:
>> >
>> > Compaq lt1720US laptop
>> > 256M ram (activated swap when requested)
>> >
>> > Trying to use FTP install and run into the following error:
>> >
>> > After performing "Loading installation System" (much activity from FTP
>> > server) I get to "Select Mode" and choose "Update" then get the error
>> > "Failed to initialize the catalog. Try again?" If I select "Yes" I get a
>> > screen showing the correct info and select "OK" and get the same error
>> > again.
>> >
>> > This repeats continuously after being put into text mode install screen.
>> 
>> Use http instead - this is one of the "most annoying bugs",
>> 
>
> Since I don't run an HTTP server this is rather hard. Is this going to

NFS installation should work as well.

> be fixed in the next alpha release?

Yes, definitely!  We have a fix already but it come too late,

Andreas
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