*This* is what I wanted to hear from you right at the beginning when I asked if you could let me know how your installation went. So, you DID have this problem which has been sending me around the bend for 2 days now. The failed install is what causes one to have to login in as root only.
Well... yes and no. This only happened on the second full install I tried. When it failed, I rebooted to 10.1, and went looking in Bugzilla and in the Most Annoying Bugs list. When I spotted my problem as a known problem and a workaround, I started the 10.2 install over again... so while I did bump into the broken install thing after enabling Additional Sources, I did not take it any further - I didn't attempt to complete the install after it broke... so didn't come across the root only login issue.
to go and create new install sources, Yast2 simply exits back to the window and there is no way to see what is installed so that one can add from the CD/DVD.
This might be related to the bug I opened regarding a repeatable SegFault I get with Yast... maybe?
To me a beta is something which should only contain the most hidden bugs. All bugs like the ones mentioned in the Annoying Bugs should NOT be there but should have been picked up by alpha 3 at least.
Yah true, but the install base on the Alpha versions is a LOT smaller than on the Beta. Plus loads of people are installing Alpha in a VM... so real world testing on the menagerie of computers out there doesn't actually start happening until it's released on us unwashed masses. C.