Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

["Robert Lewis" <bob.l.lewis@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/24/07, Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> Ken Schneider
> UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998
>
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You are absolutely correct in your response which I appreciated.
However, it is my opinion that the human interface is not clear
and as such one can fall into an unexpected trap.
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