** Reply to message from "Rajko M."
With openSUSE 10.3 you need one CD (KDE or GNOME) to install graphical base system. After that you can install more programs using YaST or zypper.
The only problem is that if you add online repositories than installation program will try to use them, and that means very long download. So workaround would be to install CD without online repositories and when installation is done go to YaST and add them. They are listed in YaST Comunity Repositories. If there will be any problems just ask.
Console program 'wget -c <url>' is solution for long downloads. It will continue download when you restart it. The simple way is to create directory for iso files, change to that directory and start wget. When you want to stop than Ctrl-c, and next time you want to continue download cd to directory where is partial download and start 'wget -c <url>' and it will continue. See 'man wget' for details.
I've taken your advice and am now d/l CD1 of v10.3 for x86-64 from a mirror in Prague, using wget as you advised. I have got up to about 5% of the 725MB iso; with any luck, it will be all over by the time I go to bed Thursday night. To clarify: I understand that this is the only CD I need to run to upgrade the OS proper, including KDE. I will run it in the usual way, as I did for the first install of v10.2, and let it run until it asks me for CD2, at which time the exercise is complete. What will have been updated is KDE and possibly other elements of the OS itself; the kernel is unchanged however? In future, when asked for any CD beyond CD1, I am to use the disks from the v10.2 set. Is all that correct?
-- Regards, Rajko.
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