Hi all !
Yes, I edited my 1st post because I saw the error with the 12.1 entries.
The cause of this was simple:
I wrote this post on a faster 2nd PC (a core-i5) that still runs under 12.1,
and I copied the addresses of the repos from there …
Scanning through the post again after having sent it, I discovered the error,
and edited the post.
Yes Carlos, usually the 12.1 would have been a clue.
Sorry for inconvenience.
The installation took place as follows.
I installed 12.3 at least 5 times on the Pentium III PC on a separate internal SCSI hard disk,
formating “/” (root partition) and “/home” each time with ext3 .
Custom install. Bootloader is legacy GRUB using MBR.
Sources were
openSUSE-12.3-DVD-i586.iso checked and burned to a DVD,
openSUSE-12.3-Addon-NonOss-BiArch-i586-x86_64.iso checked and burned to a CD-RW,
the latter specified to the installer as external source.
In the last install, at least, I added
‘http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.3/’](http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.3/)
as a further external source,
so that the installer would have direct access to all the updated .rpm’s present there along the .drpm’s.
So I didn’t end up with more than one kernel after the online update that I chose to take place during previous installations of 12.3,
i.e. still running openSUSE from the installer DVD.
A different previous attempt was to as well include
‘http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_12.3/’](http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_12.3/)
as external source during installation and to install kdebase3-session .
But that resulted in unresolved package dependencies and/or difficulties rebooting during the process of installation.
So I dropped that.
James,
thanks for the zypper command, that was much easier than copy and past …
myHost:~ #
myHost:~ # zypper repos -u
# | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | URI
---+------------------------------------+------------------------------------+---------+---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 | 12.3_non-oss | openSUSE 12.3 NonOSS Add on | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.3/repo/non-oss/
2 | 12.3_oss | openSUSE | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.3/repo/oss/
3 | 12.3_update | 12.3 update | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.3/
4 | KDE3_for_12.3 | KDE3 for 12.3 | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_12.3/
5 | openSUSE-12.3-1.7 | openSUSE-12.3-1.7 | No | No | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-_NEC_DVD_RW_ND-4570A,/dev/sr0,/dev/sr1
6 | openSUSE-12.3-NonOSS-Add-on_12.3-0 | openSUSE 12.3 NonOSS Add on | No | No | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-_NEC_DVD_RW_ND-4570A,/dev/sr0,/dev/sr1
7 | repo-debug | openSUSE-12.3-Debug | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/12.3/repo/oss/
8 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-12.3-Update-Debug | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/12.3/
9 | repo-debug-update-non-oss | openSUSE-12.3-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/12.3-non-oss/
10 | repo-source | openSUSE-12.3-Source | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/12.3/repo/oss/
11 | repo-update-non-oss | openSUSE-12.3-Update-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.3-non-oss/
myHost:~ #
Now to sum up for the Pentium III PC:
(1) After booting from the installer DVD, during the installation the internet is accessible.
Online updates do work if selected when the choice to do so comes up towards the end of the installation.
No serious network problems observed.
(2) Booting 12.3 from hard disk after installation, I start up Firefox, I load a satellite image, I install NoScript, and I have a look at the forums here.
No network problem at all.
(3) I enter YaST - Software Management
and search for kdebase3,
check kdebase3-session and a few more like kdebase3-SuSE etc.,
chose accept,
get a list of further packages required,
chose continue,
YaST2 window comes up: ‘Perform Installation’,
it hangs after having downloaded 97% of the first package, libwebkitgtk-3_0-0 (hopefully no typo, size is 6.00 MB)
(in another attempt it already hang after about 30% of that package).
I click the button ‘Abort’ - no reaction.
I Ctrl-Alt-Delete to shut down properly.
If you want me to try to install anything else I’ll do as long as the size of the software is 50 MB or less, or it is the updates for 12.3.
Thanks to all
Mike
