I downloaded the Leap 16 offline installer (4.2GB). However, when I boot it and select install, it doesn’t complete booting and errors out:
“Network not available, Agama installer cannot be used remotely.”
Is there a fix for this (still installing OFFLINE)? How is this not a release blocker? Why would anyone in the dev team switch to an installer that doesn’t have an offline mode?
How did you create the install USB / DVD ?
As I said, I downloaded it. From the official website. Checked the SHA256 hash.
That’s not what was asked. How did you write to the USB stick? Describe exact steps you used to write the ISO to the USB/DVD.
You forgot to explain what it means.
I cannot find this string (or parts of this string) in the Agama sources. Besides, this message looks like an information, not an error.
There was no USB stick involved. I was installing into a VMware guest by directly mounting the ISO download.
Then helpful to explain that in the opening post. Details matter.
I have had the same problem. I downloaded the ISO using this link https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/offline/Leap-16.0-offline-installer-x86_64.install.iso and burnt it to a USB with Rufus using the default values (Partition scheme MBR, Target system BIOS (or UEFI-CSM), File system FAT32).
After booting the script pauses for a couple of minutes on the line “Finished Virtual Console Setup” then displays a number of lines with the message “Warning dracut-initqueue: starting timeout script” and that’s all I get.
Hi, welcome
That will never work. I don’t know Rufus, but Balena Etcher seems to have a “dd” mode, which people have had good results with
If rufus use the dd option . Rufus modifies the installer must be pure unmodified binary to the device not to a partition
Thanks. Using “dd” did the trick, although in my defence I remember “iso” working for 15.6 and also it seemed reasonable to use “iso” (which is the Rufus default) on an .iso file.
Lots of people fall for this. It does work for other OS but SUSE requires more care
Last days i tried with Rufus on DD mode, but didn’t work. I found this youtube video that explains there is a problem with graphical nvidia cards. Using the attrib nomode on install startup works fime for me. I share the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HatmtZKNjho
Thanks a lot.
I always just use cp to copy the iso to the USB device/ Others use dd. Most that try Rufus fail Note you must copy to the device not a partition on the device!
openSUSE install iso is a boot ready image
If you have an existing openSUSE the best to use is SUSE Studio Imagewriter
It will never fail 
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