How Will You Install openSUSE 11.1?

[zak89]

How do you plan to get your copy of openSUSE 11.1?

[zak89]

I plan to download the DVD via KTorrent. While I am a huge fan of the netinstaller, my reasoning is that downloading the entire distro during the installation (from the undoubtedly overloaded mirrors) will be more taxing on servers than just downloading the DVD image p2p style. And installation from a disc is always much faster than via netinstall.

[microchip8]

I won't install it all. Unlike most (all?) obsessed geeks here, I like to keep my SUSE version a bit longer. That is, I always skip two SUSE releases so I upgrade only when the End Of Life is reached of my current SUSE in use (or a bit sooner). I'm currently on 11.0, will skip 11.1 and 11.2 and will upgrade when 12.0 comes out

[conram]

For ones with opensuse 11.0 I will just update or upgrade it
I have a new one with just vista in it and will use the dvd/cd to do a minimal installation and just add more stuffs that I need after to make the installation a bit faster.

[Wilson_Phillips]

Got a new Toshiba notebook with Vista Ultimate 64 on it and it is ready for the DVD installation. I can hardly wait.

[hcvv]

I am a bit like microchip8. But I am on 10.3 so maybe I will use 11.1 as the next. But I will not hurry at all. Wait a bit until the hype is a bit gone and the first reports show up in these forums.

[zak89]

Maybe I should have included a "The friggin' updates! Bah, Humbug!" option...



Actually, I was aiming the question at those who are upgrading; but have it your way.

Me, heh, heh. Yeah, I'm pretty conservative about updating; I waited a full 2 HOURS before installing 11.0! (okay, so those two hours were spent downloading the .iso...). I am particularly interested in running kernel 2.6.27; my wifi card appears to work much better with the new kernel.

Can't wait!

[zak89]

Actually, if you are going to stick with one release for a while, I would defintely pick 11.0. I think openSUSE really made a milestone with that release, especially with Yast/zypper. I have 11.0 on my home server and probably won't upgrade for sometime (maybe 12.0). But for my desktop workstations, I like to have the latest-and-greatest-and-most-uptodatest.

[solmisation]

I have pre-ordered the DVD( for the first time, usually download from torrents), this will be installed on the new system I have just built. AMD Phenom 9950( black edition), 2 x 500Gig WD HDD.

Looking forward to getting the box.

[snakedriver]

Actually I'll do a combo of downloading the DVD and then turn off all the repos in my 11.1 rc1 install except the DVD and tell it to refresh that.
Then do:
zypper ref
zypper dup
zypper verify
That should get me to 11.1 GM

That will also delete some Packman & vlc rpms
I will turn back on all my 11.1 repos
and get back those rpms it deleted

Then setup the oss. non-oss & update repos and do a major update to catch all I may have missed & any late changes.

Start stuffing apps/packages from there.