Joseph Comfort composed on 2015-01-04 12:21 (UTC-0700):
I am trying to install os 13.2 on my HP 6305 desktop...Installation of 13.1 was not a problem, and all ran fine...
If your interest is in having 13.2 working as expected rather than getting to the bottom of why 13.2 won't install on this machine: 1-do a minimal X 13.1 installation (other instead of KDE or Gnome) 2-# zypper clean -a 3-change each 13.1 string in /etc/zypp/repos.d/*repo to read 13.2 4-remove the DVD repo file (optional) 5-# zypper ref 6-# zypper dup[1] 7-use YaST2 or zypper to fill out your 13.2 installation Zypper is a very good upgrader. Those of us running Factory have been upgrading this way frequently for most of the years since zypper was born. If you want both, but need 13.2 now or soon, partition an extra / so you can have both; the upgraded 13.1 soon, and the other / to use with Factory milestone DVDs to help get the bug out of the installer, if that's where the bug is rather than in your HP's firmware. Most than one Linux on a system isn't that complicated as long as you keep the bootloader installation and maintenance utilities from stepping on each other. I do it on many systems, by installing Grub to each /, and having a /boot partition for a primary Grub I install and manage manually, and never mount to /boot except (as an optional shortcut) for a first installation to a previously Linux- and Grub-free system. Should you prefer Grub Legacy to Grub2, 13.1 retains the option to install it initially instead of Grub2, which isn't an option in the 13.2 installer, even though 13.2 does still include the Grub Legacy package and post-installation support for it. [1] As a habitual safety precaution adopted years ago, I split this into 2 parts: 1-zypper in zypper libzypp rpm; 2-zypper dup. I don't think zypper changed enough between 13.1 and 13.2 to make this necessary, but it shouldn't hurt, if you answer the *yast* conflict questions appropriately. In multi-user.target upgrading with zypper, whether yast2 works doesn't matter. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org