Talk:Released Version

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For previous versions of SUSE I can download all ftp directory and do "FTP Install" from downloaded source (using local ftp server or NFS). Is this possibility will be available for SuSE 10 OSS? And when, if "yes"?

This is the Internet Installation repository. Of course you can just download everything to your local harddisk and install from there. Whats exactly the problem?

-Henne

Installed from CD, packages from FTP?

I installed from the CD set, but I want to select packages from an FTP site. How do I make that happen? I created a new installation source that points to the mirror, but when I look at the packages, I can't find anything new.

ISO CD #2

I have downloaded all ISO, burn all of them, except the ISO of CD #2, where I get errors at burning. Tried different aplications, lower speed, different CD media, different download mirror. Somewhere at 80% I get this kind of error: burn failed, error in writing. The computer is a Toshiba Dynabook, new one, no problem in writing, using Windows XP, burning aplications: latest version of Nero 6, Sonic RecordNow 7.2.

Best, Alex

internet installation

what is the ip adress that the Suse linux 10.0 needs to download bi internet installation and how can i point the yast to the mirror

Yeah, an answer to this would be kinda useful; one would tend to expect that an "Internet Installation" ISO would already know the download sources (or at least one).

Once the cd is booted, select Install and enter the following boot option: install=http://download.opensuse.org/distributions/SL-10.1/inst-source

If SUSE autodetects your network card/settings correctly it will start the install

Right now (see timestamp below) the above method does not work; nor does entering similar information in the installation GUI, as shown in the main article. Instead, a redirect "302 Found" occurs! This is strange, as the link to the repository at the bottom of the main article DOES show the repository, but when you try to get there with the installation GUI or by entering the above "install=" option at the initial page, you get the 302. Then I noticed that if I follow the link above, on THIS page, you are redirected to a 404 page! It's this one:

http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distributions/SL-10.1/inst-source

This in fact is the solution to the mystery: this URI is a typo; it should be:

http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source

(note no "s" on "distribution). If you enter this URI instead, your installation starts as advertised.

Hopefully the kind, generous, and highly intelligent people at opensuse.org will repair this redirect and make note of it here.

-Tzf 06:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Upgrading from Previous SUSE Version

It doesn't seem to say anywhere whether or not it is possible to upgrade from 9.3 to 10 without reformating your hard drive. I don't want to go through all the trouble of downloading the install CD's to find out that it is not possible to upgrade. The website seems to imply that you must reformat (i.e. it says you can't put the install files on the same partition because they will get erased).

If it is possible to upgrade, there should be a page somewhere that says what are valid upgrade paths (e.g. 9.3 is upgradable to 10, but 8.x is not upgradable directly to 10 without upgrading to 9.x first). If there is no upgrade path (i.e. you have to start from zero at every version release), you should say so somewhere and I would highly suggest that you make it so that you can upgrade from the previous release to the next release without reformatting the drive and losing all your data and programs.

Or even better, make it so that you can upgrade to 10 by using YaST.

Thanks and keep up the good work.

openSUSE 10.1 upgrade to 10.2

I have version 10.1 running very successfully but would like to move to 10.2. Is there a way of doing this upgrade in the style of going from Windows ME to XP without losing all the programs I have currently installed?

Downloads SUSE Linux 10.1

Dtmilano 09:09, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

It would be great to have the image size as weel as the MD5 checksums to recognize inmediatly if a download is incomplete

Download link NOT WORKING:

This link does not work. The other ones I tried do, though, so there must be something wrong with the i386 DVD file torrent on the server.

Something is wrong with SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-DVD-i386.iso download

There also seems to be a problem with the HTML x86 DVD dowload as well. Whenever I click the link, the download prompt comes up saying it's so many GB in size, but then when I click "save," it takes less than a second to download. It says "download complete" with 0 out of 0 bytes recieved.

Download URL still not fixed

12:10, Nov 13, 2006 (EST)

I ended up using ftp://suse.inode.at/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/ to get the network install working.

Request - Statement of changes from previous version

Maybe this is out there somewhere but I can't find it. Every new version should include a readily accessible statement of what is different between it and the previous version and why people on the earlier version should/might want to upgrade to this version.

• Product Highlights is what you want

Suggestion - Mention the LiveCD/LiveDVD

Dec 12, 2006

Should this page not mention the LiveCD/DVD even when it is not available (yet)?

Which CD image to use for Network installs

The copy says to download the "first CD image" for this purpose... but that's a full 670MB ISO. The mirrors have the short, 44MB net-install ISO, but it's not on this page -- shouldn't it be? And if so, where's it at on Novell's servers? I'm about to dive into the 10.2 waters pretty heavily; I may try to put in some time refactoring this page.
--Baylink 17:15, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Additionally, it appears impossible to use the net-install image to reliably perform a local install from a non-bootable DVD-ROM, which is often necessary on older server hardware. It's heartbreakingly *close* to working, but the image probably ought to be adapted, since it doesn't seem to quite succeed. I'm going to characterize this more, and hang a bug.
--Baylink 19:36, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

SUSE 10.2 Downloads

i386 CD 1 not Booting

1/17/06 - I downloaded the SUSE 10.2 CD1 image for i386 via HTTP and burned a CD. I cannot boot from that CD when I try it in a new desktop PC or in a Mini-ITX PC. I have done the following:

• Verified the MD5 checksum of the disk image .iso file.
• Burned it as an iso image, not as a file on a data disk.
• Burned it on both a Mac using Disk Utility and on a PC using Nero.
• Tried burning 3 separate CDs in case there was a media error.
• Burned at 4X speed.
• Verified boot order in BIOS.
• Tried booting on two different PCs.
• Booted successfully using an old SUSE 9.3 so I know the computers are OK.

What else can I try?

I can read various Linux files off the CD. It just won't boot. Is there a possibility that the .iso image is not bootable?