On 2014-12-15 11:26, cagsm wrote:
Since the network card for external connection was messed up after the architecture change initially installed from the vanilla media usb key, I was lucky that I had fetched the 12.3 update folder to the local disk in advance, so that I was able to add that local hdd folder as repository for zypper and zypper up there and then after the next reboot the network card came back fine as before on the 32bit system and it is mostly all good now.
Aha.
So maybe future opensuse releases could somehow really do make use of additional repositories even when using vanilla read-only potentially outdated media to do offline install from but already the install process could take in such nice update packagas as kernel or udev systemd and init related stuff and all those things for basic operating the hardware and network and really the core of things.
The installer can make use of networked repos, but when it does, they replace completely the DVD. Say, you have pack.9.rpm both in the dvd and in the oss repo, it takes the one from oss, wasting bandwidth and time. The update repo is a different case. It is normally better to not use it during install/upgrades, because the result was untested/undesigned for. There are exceptions. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)