Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

[Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 13:35 -0700, Robert Lewis wrote:
> I took all the defaults after installing the DVD I d/l and cut.
> 
> However, the majority of the installation seems to
> be coming off the net instead of the DVD which
> is painfully slow.  Over 4-hrs so far and not even
> close to finishing.
> 
> I suspect I should have said NO to the early question
> about installation repositories.  Is this correct?

This is precisely why it is taking a long time. One of the installation
repositories is factory which has newer packages so they will download
from there.

> 
> If so why not reverse the logic so that the DVD is
> the first place to look for RPMS on install and
> get updates at the end of the installation.

It does, it's just that factory has newer versions.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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