Andrei Borzenkov:
Siard:
I am trying to install Leap 15.4. But during the installation of packages, I get messages like these:
YaST2 Installation of package python3-six failed. Details: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Command exited with status 1. History: - error: failed to exec scriptlet interpreter /bin/sh: Permission denied
This sounds like root is mounted with noexec option.
Well, I investigated this further, and it looks like I've finally found it. During installation, in the 'Fstab Options' dialog, I had checked 'Mountable by User' and 'Do Not Mount at System Start-up'. See this picture: https://postimg.cc/QFmgLbRZ It's probably the last option that caused the problems. I have finally installed Leap 15.4 now. (Hurray!)
I made a bootable USB stick with the Network Image, booted and followed the instructions. I put openSUSE on /dev/sdb7, which is on a logical volume.
I do not understand what it means. What is "logical volume"?
Chose ext4 as file system, because Grub does not recognize a btrfs file system when it is on a logical volume.
Nor do I understand that. What is "logical volume"?
As Josef Moellers already noticed, I'd better call it 'logical partition'. A disk drive can contain a maximum of four primary partitions or three primary partitions and a single extended partition. That extended partition, then, can be subdivided into several so-called logical partitions. As you see, these are MBR partitions, not UEFI yet. Maybe worth telling. I had SuSE from December 1999, when version 6.3 came out, till March 2007, when its new owner Novell went to cooperate with a certain company that is NOT known for its noble intentions. I could not live with that, tried a few other distros and went on with Debian. My last SuSE version was 10.0. Now that the storm seems to be over, I had a second look. I recognize quite a few names in this list from posters that were already around by then. IMO, Debian, while very reliable, is not easy if you're not an IT professional. For me, it would have been more difficult without the knowledge I had gathered from my SuSE years. As a typical example, I learned the basics of vi from two pages in the SuSE manual. Without it, the road to sort everything out would be way longer. With Ubuntu, on the other hand, you feel treated like a toddler, as if someone is holding your hand. Version names like Focal Fossa, Groovy Gorilla, Hirsute Hippo, Impish Indri and Jammy Jellyfish, I find them annoying and irritating. To me, openSUSE looks like the golden mean. The difference between Leap and Tumbleweed looks very much the same as the difference between Debian Stable and Testing. I always had both. You could have TW as your main distro and have Leap as fallback.