On 7/7/24 06:18, Felix Miata wrote:
The US Mirrors and the magic "mirror selector" is unusable. My first 3 attempts at install ended in:
Attempting to install what?
Tumbleweed from: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-NET-x86_64-Current.iso When the boot media goes to the mirror to install the "Installation System" which is then what is run (the normal installer), the failures all prevented the "Installation System" from every completely downloading, or downloading in a way that the installer thought was consistent. The number of different ways the Red: "An error occurred during installation." dialogs that I saw was nuts. Even when ALL of the 1/6, 2/6, 3/6, ... parts of the installation system downloaded properly, the red "An error occurred during installation." dialog would be shown, and it would then show you the dialog to start the installation system. Only the last mirror actually succeeded to launch the install after this error. All other mirrors resulted in redownload of the installation system, more errors and more loops back to download before hanging or just failing.
Issues:
Yast cannot configure network claiming Network Manager is managing the network -- but I have IceWM as the desktop and no Network Manager is shown or available. How do I tell yast to configure my network connections?
I don't try. I use linuxrc to configure network for installation, select not managed for network, and include systemd-network among packages to install. YaST can't manage systemd-network, but that's fine by me. I use only static IPs, and have no problem writing /etc/systemd/network/eth0.network and /etc/resolv.conf files on first boot.
Where does the flag for this behavior live? /etc/sysconfig? I don't have Network Manager, but Yast says my network is managed and I have no way to configure the wireless? I simply want to configure my wifi and eth0 connections in yast onboot.
Yast Software Repositories does not show any of the normal repositories, only Packman and libdvdcss. Where do I get the list of the normally available repos for TW?
NVidia users trigger installation of openSUSE-repos-Leap and openSUSE-repos-Leap-NVIDIA, which sets up a repo management service. I taboo their installation, which results in traditional repo setup and management.
UUGH.... How do I undo this "repo management service" now that I just did the TW install to get normal repos back? Is it a meta-package or something I need to uninstall?
US mirrors need a bit of TLC, or the bad ones just need to be dropped.
True. I don't even bother downloading the NET .iso most times. On already working systems I simply have Grub load the installation linux and initrd I got from <http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/boot/x86_64/loader/>. When I see it take too long to get started by using d.o.o as source, I abort and start over using gwdg.de instead.
That's a shame. I've used the Net install since it came out somewhere around the 10.X days, maybe 11. I had never had any problem at all with it. However, in the past I never experienced a 1+ hour wait for it to try and download the install system. To be honest, I thought that was on the USB already, so it wasn't until the initial downloads kept failing that I clued into the fact that the Net-install is now basically nothing more than a hardware detect and kernel setup to establish a network connection to download the actual installer and then start the install. Watching each square of the meter take several minutes per progress-tick was quite painful. Let me know if you know how I fix the Yast network and Yast repo management problems. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.