I’m currently trying to install openSUSE 13.1 via a network install (I know it isn’t the latest right now), and I managed to get all the way to the package installation portion - I believe it was 45% of the way through, which was quite a lot considering our connection to the internet is very limited bandwidth-wise. However, the installation hung on one package download (can’t remember off the top of my head). I received a spinning cursor, and the UI buttons were not responding. A little poking around in the y2base process seemed to show that it was polling a FD (socket) in a loop, and not getting anywhere.
At any rate, the only thing I could think of doing at this point was killing the process, which of course killed the whole installation. So I’m back at square one to some degree, but I’d like to know - is all really lost?
As far as I know, what has been installed so far is still intact. Is it possible to resume the installation at the point where it was downloading packages?
If you have iffy Internet you should use the install DVD or one of the Live DVDs.
Download via torrent. It is a lot more reliable in the long run. You don’t save time or bandwidth doing a net install. And if it does not work you are back to square one. With a torrent if you lose connection it can restart where it left off. As a bonus you end up with install media that you can reuse if needed.
I think torrenting could be a little problematic where I am in terms of firewalls, although I do use a download manager that seems to work pretty well for resuming downloads. I thought net install disks were beneficial since they don’t come with any packages (and anything you wouldn’t end up installing), do the DVDs just have the base system, same as what I’m installing anyways?
I’d like to add for anyone else with this problem: I seem to have gotten around the issue by starting the install disk, letting it detect the installation, then choosing to do an “upgrade”. This only downloaded about 30MB of packages.
