Well said: - I shd have also added packman and Videolan using the repo feature because otherwise the “zypper dup” after 3 hours left me with a blank screen reboot (needed them for the vlc media player). Had to wipe and use CD install - after 6 hours the reboot failed in grub - the hd() mapping was wrong. Luckily I had made a grub floppy before reboot and managed to do the first boot reconfiguration. Then repaired the menu.lst file.
Not a straightforward procedure! But great job for the developers!