I want ot know if this is a bug of the installation script.
If the installation was designed to install some software from repository,
if the downloading speed is very slow/ the network connection quality to the default repository is very bad,
can I suggest to isolate the online part and let the user can select the opportunity to install the software from the repository?
Depend on what iso you downloaded if the the full DVD or the network install???
Once installed from DVD install there will be recommended updates since the DVD image was created back in November.
Updates will come from a mirror thought to be close to you. But sometimes that may not be the best for you so try another mirror in your region. Just go to Yast - Repository maintenance and change the URL’s for your repo list
gogalthorp, thanks for your explanation about the installation and updating.
It’s clear to me now.
And I think the team is already doing a good work at this.
I’m a developer, newcomer to linux word, and I hope I can contribute something to the SuSE in the future.
Although I can not write any code for SuSE now, but according a developer’s perspective, I think the installation still has some space to improve, the space is:
change the repository to update is optional in the installation steps, and
change the repository option is several pages far way from the real installation,
the new comer of the openSUSE have no idea to customize the repository to finish the installation,
once step into the last install step, it’s very hard to switch to the “Details” page to see what happen at the “saving configurations”, what the installation is doing at “94%”, why the installation never end,
the only choice is to install again, switch to “Details” page when the installation is starting, to see the root cause.
Or, can we create a new step to test the repository and release a warning if there is a another good repository choice before start the real installation?
Thank you for your time.
And, sorry, may be, I’m buzzing…
The install should not need any repos until it is finished unless you selected the Net install ISO or you selected to add programs that may not be on the install disk. That of course needs the Internet. Once installed you can optionally do the recommended update which also then requires Internet. Best to wait until OS installed before adding programs
I download a 4.7G ISO file, then write it to a USB disk by image writer utility provided by SUSE.
I did not check any online things, and at the “saving configurations”, 94% installation progress, it’s starting to downloading Kaddressbook5.
I can make a snapshot when I at home today later time.
and even install it into a virtual machine I can reproduce this problem.
The people who maintain the installer are unable to reproduce this bug. I’m not sure why, because I see it on every recent install. But perhaps they aren’t looking at the right part of the screen during the install.
In any case, after the discussion in the bug report, my conclusion is that this is just a bad message from the installer. It isn’t actually downloading kaddressbook5. Instead, it looks as if it is downloading the metadata to initialize the repos for your installed system. Somehow it is displaying the wrong message while doing that.
You can probably avoid the problem entirely, by disconnecting the ethernet cable before the install. Then it cannot even try to download that. So it will leave the setup of the repos until the first use of Yast (or zypper) after the install.
