I believe the "key" point is that you MUST disable the network connection when doing the initial installation from the DVD, otherwise, it is pointed to the TW repos and therefore during the update it would update to the latest TW version. Then when you changed the repos to SlowRow, it would be pointing to a version which is older than the version you updated to during the installation.

The DVD iso is not installing the 6.5.3 kernel, it is getting updated because during the initial install you have the online repos enabled and it updates you to the kernel that is in those online TW repos. That's why you have to turn the network off to do the initial install.

By turning off the network in the VM, doing the initial install ( which now cannot be upgraded to the latest TW because there is no network ), rebooting, changing the repos as detailed below, enabling the network and finally doing the zypper dup ( which will now come from the SlowRoll repos ) everything works.

Hi Larry,

I just followed the process in Bernard's below and it worked fine. I have a VM running slowroll now. I used the openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20230822-Media.iso he references below then replaced the repos and zypper dup.

Wayne

On Tue, 2023-09-19 at 07:22 -0500, Larry Len Rainey wrote:

The DVD iso installs the 6.5.3 kernel. The Network ISO does the same. Makes it impossible to do updates and you are stuck with a broken Tumbleweed.

I even went as far as to install a 3 year old Tumbleweed ISO with a 5.X kernel but it was so old that zypper could do a dup with the current slowroll repos - said all were invalid format. I think an ISO with a 6.4 kernel might be the only way.

I will disable the network in VirtualBox and download and try again the DVD iso.

Larry

On 9/19/23 06:59, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:

On 19/09/2023 02.59, Larry Len Rainey wrote:

I have tried everything to get slowroll to work - tumbleweed migrate, leap 15.5 migrate - none work as zypper dup does not update to a working slowroll it will install tumbleweed and fail to zypper dup to slowroll. I have created 24 different vms that have not worked a zypper dup to a valid result.

Slowroll will update to the 6.4.24 kernel and get deleted because the install image put 6.5.3 kernel and the reboot deletes the 6.4.24.

Can someone make a valid slowroll install iso and not install tumbleweed but a true slowroll?

I would take a slowroll virtualbox vm that works. I have no idea how to set virtualbox to work with slowroll - it seems to get recreated with every Tumbleweed kernel but seems to be backward compatible.

We don't have dedicated media for Slowroll atm, so the easiest way is an offline (no network so it does not use repos with newer files) install with

https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/ALP:/Experimental:/Slowroll/base/iso/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20230822-Media.iso

and then replace repos as described in
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Slowroll

btw: Slowroll has the 6.4.12 kernel.

https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:ALP:Experimental:Slowroll/kernel-source/kernel-default.spec

Ciao
Bernhard M.