On 2013-12-09 05:16, Felix Miata wrote:
It doesn't, but it does require appropriate documentation. Zypper and the DVD have weaknesses, but enough strength between them to do a good job. M$ doesn't fill up its installation media with a subset of a whole world of FOSS applications, unlike a Linux DVD, so has an easier job to do. So to overcome the weakness that is the application subset, Linux DVD installation needs the same installation sources configured that zypper has access to, with which the technology on the DVD absent from zypper can be used. IOW, either all the repos available need to be provided on installation or supplemental media, or the deficiency needs to be made up via internet access during installation. Or to make it easy, just use the boot iso (or the linux and initrd it contains) and do the whole upgrade with YaST over the internet, with its access to all repos.
No, unfortunately you can not use the internet repos during a DVD upgrade, at least not last time I tried. Reason: it downloads everything from internet, giving preference to the online repos against the DVD. This is an absolute NO-NO if you have a slow network, which is precisely one of the reasons for using the DVD in the first place. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)