"Benjy Grogan" writes:

I was not successful at installing beta5 over the internet. I'll try again on March 3rd with beta6 but here are the problems I experienced with beta5:

(1) Every time the boot disk booted up for i386, which is my system, I would get a message saying "Installation system does not match your boot medium. It may make your bug reports worthless" I have no idea what this meant, but hopefully the following is still useful...

Your boot disk is older, this shouldn't case any of the problems below.

(2) figuring out which installation repository to point YaST to. I tried

a) 204.152.191.7 (mirrors.kernel.org) /opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/

here I got software dependency problems, read as "Cannot solve dependencies automatically. Manual intervention is required" followed up by "This would invalidate OpenOffice_org-2.0.2_4.i586[http://204.152.191.7/open..." when I tried to select a few packages.

That's the factory tree from yesterday, it had a broken package manager. We do sync out directly without testing - should be fixed tomorrow.

so I gave up on this repository and went on to ...

b) 66.184.207.32 (ftp.ale.org) /pub/mirrors/opensuse/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source

here I got no software packages at all. It could not find any packages on the installation repository or something along those lines.

c) 195.135.221.130 (download.opensuse.org) /distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source

here I got the message "network error 403" and never got to the installation screen that I experienced with the above two repositories. This repository was a dud.

(3) At one point, randomnly, when booting up the boot disk I got a X-mas Santa penguin screen... Out of the blue. Penguins were skating and moving all over. I was so shocked that the timer ran out and the system went back to booting the regular OS.

That's the christmas egg ;-)

(4) I'm starting to wonder if the internet installation repositories are working at all? Is this my problem to begin with? Either way, I'm willing to try beta6 when it comes out but if there is something fundamental I'm doing wrong with the internet installation then let me know.

The repositories are updated regularly and this causes the problem, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126