The Repair function seems to have disappeared from the install media. It could be used to repair a lot of options on an (unbootable) installed system, to get it back in a (bootable and) working state.
This short article shows how to use a LiveCD to take over / repair
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Published on 31-Dec-2012 21:45
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Finding and Installing Software for openSUSE
You can search for additional software (not available in the default or your current repository list)
Here: http://software.opensuse.org/search You can see your current list of repos in Yast > Software > Repositories
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Boot the Rescue from the DVD. This should be the same Arch as the installation: ie; 32 bit or 64 bit..
Once the DVD rescue gets to 'login', type: root
from there I run fdisk -l to confirm my HD partitition order.
We need to mount root (for me that's sda3)
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