David C. Rankin composed on 2024-07-07 04:54 (UTC-0500):
Note on the Tumbleweed Net install ISO. Of the 20+ years I've used SUSE/openSUSE, this was by far the most frustrating and error prone install I have ever done.
North American mirrors are often flaky, especially if installing an alpha or beta, because most are not full service. When a NET installation takes an unreasonable time to get started, abort, and use a Euro mirror. I typically use ftp5.gwdg.de when this happens.
The US Mirrors and the magic "mirror selector" is unusable. My first 3 attempts at install ended in:
Attempting to install what?
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.
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.
All in all, just getting the installer to run from this net install was the most painful exercise I've been though installing Linux. Now granted, this seems to be 99% related to the mirror-selector and the abysmal state of US mirrors. I don't know why this is, but I went through 4 individual mirrors, and 3 of 4 had no thoughput resulting in 1+ hours just to attempt to load the install system -- which would then fail. The fcix.net mirror was the only good mirror I found.
IME, cdn.o.o and mirrorcache.o.o in USA are too unreliable.
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. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata