I've been doing this 10.1 test work just like a real user: In other words I never read any release notes or documentation :-). Meanwhile, there is all this highly confusing yast/rug/zypp/zen stuff going on changing everything about online updates out from under me. In the 10.0 incarnation I submitted bug 141063 which was closed saying all would be automatic in 10.1. Now with RC2, I finally see some automatic things happening. Configuring the online update does seem to find a mirror for me, but at this point I get really confused: The little updater icon turned orange with an !, so I figure that means there are updates. If I click on the icon, it does say there are updates, but if I goto yast's online update it says there aren't any. Also if I goto software management to install some things from online factory that aren't on the CDs, the things I'm looking for don't show up until I once again manually configure a factory installation source. So things look really confusing and inconsistent from out here in typical user land :-). P.S. I don't know where the zypp name came from, but you do realize it is setup to have people call it "zyppy the pinhead" don't you? :-).