On 2018-04-05 01:16, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 04/04/2018 06:07 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Well, I'm right now running the 42.3 netinstall media on a virtual machine. I see the button to "configure online repositories" in the next screen after the display of the world map for setting the time zone.
What I did not see was a display to configure network, that must be much earlier on the setup, and it expects automatic (dhcp) to work. If it finds it, it keeps silent and starts the main job.
That makes since, because IIRC, as soon as I set the clock, I was dumped right into the partitioner,
The screen sequence is: 1) Boot (with some options, no network button). Loads kernel and install system. (slow here (minutes!)) 2) Language selection (system probing) 3) Suggested partition --> edit proposal settings, choose ext4 by default, no separate home. Now the proposal changes to a single root ext4 plus swap. I accept defaults, I'm not going to complete the install anyway. 4) Clock and time zone. 5) User interface choice. Here you can select on "configure online repositories", and have these choices: (*) Desktop with KDE Plasma ( ) Desktop with Gnome ( ) Server (text mode) ( ) Custom [Configure online repositories] As this is the netinstall, the default online repositories are already enabled, not needed for me. 5.b) If you select custom, the next window is the "software selection and system tasks". I choose "X Window system". 6) Local user setup 7) Installation settings. This has several options: Booting Software Default system target (graphical) System Firewall and SSH Clicking on software goes to the pattern and package selection window. 8) Install. I stop here, so I don't know what graphical desktop will be installed, but I suppose it is the minimal one.
... and there changing from btrfs on root caused the 40G root to be recreated as a 10G ext4 root which expanded the size of home in the suggestion the partitioner displayed -- causing me to have to delete both and start over -- but for the simple 3-primary case (including swap), that was no big deal.
Well, as this virtual system I'm testing has no partitions at all, the proposal doesn't have the same choices as yours. But clicking on "create partition setup" gives you a choices of disks (and from memory, partitions) to use for the proposal. Or the "Expert partitioner". One button on the expert partitioner is to import mount points: this wonderful option allows you to install on top of an existing one, reading the fstab file. You choose what partitions to format or reuse as they are (you should format root, keep home, etc).
continuing from the partitioner, I think the only screen I got before package selection was the user-setup, where I nix the use as administrative account to get a traditional root account + user account, next screen was set root password and then package selection (or package selection could have been before user??) but that was about it.
Well, see above the exact sequence, I have it in sight :-) I have gone forward and back several times to check points, no problem. You can do and undo many times, nothing is final till the end of choices.
I never had an option to configure online repos until the reboot and my lauching of yast.
Sometimes I do not see a button that I know is there, it happens.
I downloaded the 42.3 net install a week ago or so, if that makes a difference on the version.
No, it doesn't matter. Once released, it is not changed. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)