Hello,
I just saw Build 0314 dated April 05 in the following link, but am not sure if Milestone 3 is out yet:
URL=“http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/”
Any idea?
hi,
I saw in Distrowatch that April 5 was supposed to be the release date of M3. Here’s the correct link to Build 0314 dated April 05, 2012:
This build has nothing to do with Milestone 3, which was postponed for at least a week. It is always a good idea to read opensuse-factory mailing list first before creating such “Milestone N+1” threads here) 
Spasiba (Thank you in Russian)!
Wouldn’t it be convenient to place a few links (to the mailing list, factory images, repos, etc.) as stickies at the top of the forums?
>:)
The factory mailing list thread on M3 status seems to suggest that Wednesday (Apr 11) is now the tentative target date.
On 2012-04-06 23:46, taytong888 wrote:
> Wouldn’t it be convenient to place a few links (to the mailing list,
> factory images, repos, etc.) as stickies at the top of the forums?
Mmm. Supposedly, to use the beta you should be an expert, so you can find
the info on your own 
What do you want to link at? You can not point to a post in particular, it
is obsolete in days. You have to keep reading the mail list everyday to
know what happens.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Update on Milestone 3 --dated April 10th from Factory mailing list
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Just a short update: The x86-64 media look fine but the i686 have broken metadata
or contents, installation is not possible at all with them.
Andreas
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Hopefully this can be resolved before the weekend.
On 04/10/2012 12:16 PM, Romanator wrote:
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> Update on Milestone 3 --dated April 10th from Factory mailing list
>
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>
> Just a short update: The x86-64 media look fine but the i686 have
> broken metadata
> or contents, installation is not possible at all with them.
Actually, none of the Live CDs would boot due to a problem with KIWI. That has
been fixed and checked into factory. If the builds with number > 315 will boot,
then they will release.
On 04/11/2012 12:27 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 04/10/2012 12:16 PM, Romanator wrote:
>>
>> Update on Milestone 3 --dated April 10th from Factory mailing list
>>
>> <-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>>
>>
>> Just a short update: The x86-64 media look fine but the i686 have
>> broken metadata
>> or contents, installation is not possible at all with them.
>
> Actually, none of the Live CDs would boot due to a problem with KIWI. That has
> been fixed and checked into factory. If the builds with number > 315 will boot,
> then they will release.
I downloaded Build 318 of the KDE Live CD for i386. It booted fine on a
VirtualBox VM. I have not yet installed it, but I will soon.
On 04/11/2012 08:52 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
>
> I downloaded Build 318 of the KDE Live CD for i386. It booted fine on a
> VirtualBox VM. I have not yet installed it, but I will soon.
The CD installed with the same GRUB2 problems as were found with MS2. When I
retried using GRUB, it was OK.
Larry
I did a NET install of Build 0318 i686 in a separate partition from SUSE 12.1 and chose Gnome. System booted fine but after installation was completed I discovered the same problem when I edited /boot/grub/menu.lst in 12.1 (default boot loader) and updated Grub. I guess I would need to re-install this build, but how do I choose legacy Grub instead of Grub2 during installation?
Thanks in advance.
One thing you could try before installation is
cnf /usr/sbin/grub2-install
Or simply
zypper install grub2
then go ahead with your installation
I installed the kde live installer using grub2 after I used the command
zypper install grub2
also I found that mesa is missing on the kde live cd so I
zypper install mesa
That solved the compositing problems
I have noticed that mesa doesn’t even install wih the dvd or net installs for some time now
Based on the current 12.2 M3 iso directory on the web, it looks like M3 will be build-0318 for liveCDs, and build-0317 for 32-bit DVDs/and-32-bit-net-installs and build-0315 for 64-bit DVDs/and-64-bit-net-installs
On 04/12/2012 12:36 AM, taytong888 wrote:
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> I did a NET install of Build 0318 i686 in a separate partition from
> SUSE 12.1 and chose Gnome. System booted fine but after installation
> was completed I discovered the same problem when I edited
> /boot/grub/menu.lst in 12.1 (default boot loader) and updated Grub. I
> guess I would need to re-install this build, but how do I choose legacy
> Grub instead of Grub2 during installation?
It is one of the options in the “Install Summary” page.
Are you sure you had the same problem? AFAIK, NET installs work correctly. Note
that GRUB2 uses a totally new set of configuration files and menu.lst is no
longer used.
On 04/12/2012 11:56 AM, oldcpu wrote:
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> Based on the current 12.2 M3 iso directory on the web, it looks like M3
> will be build-0318 for liveCDs, and build-0317 for 32-bit
> DVDs/and-32-bit-net-installs and build-0315 for 64-bit
> DVDs/and-64-bit-net-installs
I just installed the KDE Live CD x86_64, Build 0318 on a VirtualBox VM. By
booting the Live system, opening a terminal, and issuing the command:
su -c "zypper install grub2"
before starting the installation, installation with GRUB2 worked.
Happy testing.
Hello Larry,
- Thanks. I will try reinstall and look out for this page.
- I multiboot. Because I installed 12.2 in the root partition of the last Ubuntu-derived Pear OS distro, I had to go into YAST of 12.1 (default bootloader legacy Grub) in order to edit its /boot/grub/menu.lst, so that I can boot into 12.2 as one of the menu item. Previously from Grub legacy menu of 12.1 I CAN boot into Ubuntu and Kubuntu (both Grub2) via chainloading. Now I cannot because when I update grub in 12.1 the screen shows grub> and an error message about not being able to install embedded grub (?). I don’t remember the exact wording. I also found that when I boot into 12.2, its Grub2 menu shows the wrong partition sda7 instead of sda5 of 12.1.
make sure you have os-prober is installed
if not install it and in a terminal run
grub2mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
check
cat /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
to see if your 12.1 is there
I installed M3 from a kde live cd and everything looks good (used grub rather than grub2). All the updates and packman installed fine. The nvidia driver works fine - using the script method due to the modern kernel.
The only tiny niggle i have come across is that amarok still opens with the middle window not showing correcty (until the window size is adjusted).
12.2 M3 installed fine for me. I installed using the DVD image, written to a USB.
The grub2 setup went smoothly this time. It defaulted to installing its boot sector in the extended partition. And it actually provided a menu for booting other systems.
Intel graphics look okay this time (with M2, X.org kept crashing unless I used “nomodeset”).
So far so good - no serious problems noticed.