On 2017-04-19 21:20, L A Walsh wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2017-04-19 03:38, L A Walsh wrote:
Issue#2: where / how do I change network settings?
I can configure it manually w/ip(link,addr) and can ping my host system, but don't know where to add changes to make that permanent.
YaST?
Will have to try that again ... don't remember seeing an option there, but ....
Yes, YaST does create the network config for you. Since ever. :-) You can say there that you want to use network manager instead, and then you configure the network with the network manager applet in the desktop of your choice.
Modules load instantly here, as soon as needed. If they are not loaded, there is some other problem.
---- Well, none of them load -- maybe because it's trying to load them from the initrd and and not the HD? I know they are on the initHD from last time -- but don't know that they are on the initrd.
I'm running low on energy ...
Are you trying to use your own customizations, or are you leaving everything to designed defaults?
---- I haven't gotten to a point where I could load them, if that was my intention, but I was trying to go "stock" -- with about as successful results as last time I tried this...
Well, the modules should be in initrd if YaST knows at install time that you are using them. Or in this case, LVM.
This is supposed to be the stable release?
No. It is Tumbleweed, aka Factory. Considerable effort is done at automated testing, but it is not human tested by the community till people install each release, and it changes weekly or even daily, so no, I don't consider it stable.
---- The opensuse.org page says "Fast, integrated, stabilized, & tested.
vs. leap -- the latest regular-release version.
Well, yes. Stabilized it the used word. What it means is that many automated tests are run against the snapshot before release. The effort is big indeed. However, it does not cover all cases, and the release can not have been tested by humans, because after all you get about a release per week.
Factory?! So I should really be directing these questions to the factory list? :-( ???!?
Well, IMHO, yes. Some do not like me saying "Tumbleweed aka Factory", but IMHO it is true. It is not the same as the old Factory, of course. There are differences. But the repos still fave "factory" in directory names. About writing in the factory mail list, some people there do not like user's question there, but on the other hand, Tumbleweed has issues and differences that are not present in Leap.
Leap is stable.
--- For a VM, might be ok, but considering how incompatible the regular releases are with priors, I wouldn't call that stable for a machine that needs to just "be up"....
??? I use Leap on my home server. I get uptimes of two months; could be more, but there are several updates that require a reboot. That is worse in Tumbleweed, it is a rolling and bleeding edge release. You really should go with defaults there. Too much fighting against if you don't. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)