Hello! It’s first time I try opensuse. I just installed opensuse 12.3 in dual boot with windows8 with easyBCD. Problem is I put the username and psw I chose during installation, and I am not able to log in. Situation is as follows: http://i.imgur.com/zC83kxZ.jpg
I chose enrico as username, and suse1 as hostname. I put enrico and the psw I chose but login fails. Is it normal that it says:“welcome to suse1.site”? I chose suse1 as hostname. Instead I chose enrico as username and I had the box “use this password for system admininstrator” checked. “Automatic Login” box was checked too.
Installation went fine, but during the last part of the installation I run the update, but something went wrong: http://i.imgur.com/cwWyzYS.jpg
I was asked a few times the question on the image and I replied no, then I was curious, so I clicked yes, but I think update stopped. Maybe i should have answered no clicking “do not show this message again”?. I don’t think so, but this be the cause of my login problem?
This is the dual boot situation: imgur: the simple image sharer
This is the guide I followed Dual-Boot openSUSE 12.3 And Windows » TweakHound
with the exception that I used my ssd for the root, and my 2TB hard drive for home and swap partitions. These are my hard drives partiotions http://i.imgur.com/3SjOHcJ.jpg
What could have happened? How can I solve this situation?
Thanks in advance:)
That panel, to the left of the “Username” field normally contains a list of the user. You click on the user that you want to login as.
The panel is empty. That probably indicates that something went wrong in the final stages of install (after the boot). The user was not created.
There’s a file that can be tweaked somewhere to force that final stage to be repeated. Off the top of my head, I don’t remember what it is, and perhaps the saved data for it is gone. You will probably need to create a user account.
No was the correct answer. You sometimes have to be persistent with that. Either a patch was changed after you fetched the headers, or your system tried to download the patch from a bad mirror.
You might find it easier to reinstall. And, on reinstall, skip the online update section. You can come back and do that later (with Yast).
On 2013-05-15 00:36, Enrico769 wrote:
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> Hello! It’s first time I try opensuse. I just installed opensuse 12.3 in
> dual boot with windows8 with easyBCD. Problem is I put the username and
> psw I chose during installation, and I am not able to log in.
I agree with nrickert here. Easier solution would probably be to reinstall.
> I was asked a few times the question on the image and I replied no,
> then I was curious, so I clicked yes, but I think update stopped. Maybe
> i should have answered no clicking “do not show this message again”?.
nrickert is also correct here. Me, I never run updates during the
installation, I do them later with the system running.
> This is the guide I followed ‘Dual-Boot openSUSE 12.3 And Windows »
> TweakHound’ (http://tinyurl.com/cckzjv7)
Not bad.
I can not agree with his reasoning for using EasyBCD, though, specially
reason 2: he says he doesn’t want interaction, but in fact he is doing
it - just that instead of using the Linux bootlader (grub) to boot
Windows, he uses Windows boot loader to boot Linux. There is
interaction, but the other way round.
No problem with that, I use the tool myself sometimes. A valid reason
would be that Windows is happier. However, if Windows breaks, you can
not boot Linux either.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Thanks a lot for the answers 
I will try with a brand new opensuse12.3 installation. This time I won’t update anything until installation is finished and I’m inside the o.s. Now that I think about it, I placed home and swap partition on the 2TB platter hard drive, while the root was on the 128GB ssd. Can this be a cause of problems? Moreover I followed some steps on the guide for the root on my ssd (for the trim), but not for the home folder as it was written on the guide. Is this a mistake? If yes please tell me so I do not repeat it in my next installation I though it was useless to do these steps for the home folder since it was placed on my mechanical hard drive, so I did those only for the root on the ssd.
"SSD users. To optimize the partition for SSD’s click the Edit Partition Setup… button.
Right-click on the / partition and choose Edit.
Click the Fstab Options… button.
Click the box next to No Access Time. Kinda like Windows Last Access timestamp (NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate), see here for info on this setting).
In the Arbitrary Option Value box type discard. This is like the Windows trim command. See here for more info.
Click OK, in the resulting screen click Finish.
Repeat these steps for the /home partition."
Thanks in advance
Don’t need it for /home if on rotating rust drive.
There should be no problem with that setup. The problem may have been network connection problems. Best to sort them out and not try to do the update right away.
My 2 cents: skip the update during install, you can do that later.
Thanks a lot gogal. I will try a brand new installation. I will let you know in this thread if I was able to make it work with the new installation, or if I ran into some problems
EDIT: thanks a lot to Knurpht too. I didn’t read your reply because I was writing mine. Our 2 replies were posted very close. Anyway yes, I will update everything later, after installation has been completed. I won’t make the same mistake 2 times. Thanks really a lot. It is good to know that there is a very supportive forum for new users like me.
On 2013-05-15 22:26, Enrico769 wrote:
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> Now that I think about it, I placed
> home and swap partition on the 2TB platter hard drive, while the root
> was on the 128GB ssd. Can this be a cause of problems?
No, that’s fine.
About SSD optimization, I know little.
“no access time”, correct, disable it. I do so for all disks - unless
I’m required to do auditing.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
I just wanted to say I have solved with a brand new opensuse12.3 installation. Thanks everyone for the help